From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:48:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add a note about pow(x,y) equalling x**y (the "**" operator
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Add a note about pow(x,y) equalling x**y (the "**" operator
was used unmotivated in the pow() docs)
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
index 9b6bfe9d7b4c..eeed877f945f 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
@@ -735,8 +735,11 @@ class C:
 \begin{funcdesc}{pow}{x, y\optional{, z}}
   Return \var{x} to the power \var{y}; if \var{z} is present, return
   \var{x} to the power \var{y}, modulo \var{z} (computed more
-  efficiently than \code{pow(\var{x}, \var{y}) \%\ \var{z}}).  The
-  arguments must have numeric types.  With mixed operand types, the
+  efficiently than \code{pow(\var{x}, \var{y}) \%\ \var{z}}).
+  The two-argument form \code{pow(\var{x}, \var{y})} is equivalent to using
+  the power operator: \code{\var{x}**\var{y}}.
+  
+  The arguments must have numeric types.  With mixed operand types, the
   coercion rules for binary arithmetic operators apply.  For int and
   long int operands, the result has the same type as the operands
   (after coercion) unless the second argument is negative; in that