Re: ** Operator

Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
>>http://docs.python.org/lib/typesnumeric.html
>
> You're right, it's mentioned there in section 2.3.4, but the explanation
> of pow() is already in section 2.1 prior to that.
>
> So it would be nice if the paragraph explaining pow() would mention that
> you can also write x**y for pow(x,y). And/or the example given in the
> paragraph should say pow(10,2) instead of 10**2. Otherwise it's a bit
> confusing for somebody who reads in chronological order and doesn't know
> about the ** syntax (many other languages write x^y instead of x**y).

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out how.

Kent
Received on Sun Apr 30 20:39:09 2006