Patch by Charles Waldman -- remove unneeded and even harmful test for

float to the negative power (which is already and better done in
floatobject.c.)

diff --git a/Objects/abstract.c b/Objects/abstract.c
index 288c3cb2d93dc30c93943b214aa438cbb1a91c8c..be986f5fde7bd3efe845d3a29282b4823f600c50 100644 (file)
--- a/Objects/abstract.c
+++ b/Objects/abstract.c
@@ -586,16 +586,6 @@ do_pow(v, w)
                                "pow(x, y) requires numeric arguments");
                return NULL;
        }
-       if (
-#ifndef WITHOUT_COMPLEX
-            !PyComplex_Check(v) && 
-#endif
-            PyFloat_Check(w) && PyFloat_AsDouble(v) < 0.0) {
-               if (!PyErr_Occurred())
-                   PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
-                                   "negative number to float power");
-               return NULL;
-       }
        if (PyNumber_Coerce(&v, &w) != 0)
                return NULL;
        if ((f = v->ob_type->tp_as_number->nb_power) != NULL)