From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 18:25:25 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [3.14] gh-130102: drop "require numeric arguments" from pow() docs (GH-137456) (... X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=99c1d09016ad11b56133c1f4a7c99589cd3d6f72;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [3.14] gh-130102: drop "require numeric arguments" from pow() docs (GH-137456) (#137536) gh-130102: drop "require numeric arguments" from pow() docs (GH-137456) (cherry picked from commit 37b5a0d671685645db8f1d5ecfa1260587f1fc28) Co-authored-by: Sergey B Kirpichev Co-authored-by: Senthil Kumaran --- diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index f28c1a5ad4a3..d25a6efd003c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -1580,7 +1580,7 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. ``pow(base, exp) % mod``). The two-argument form ``pow(base, exp)`` is equivalent to using the power operator: ``base**exp``. - The arguments must have numeric types. With mixed operand types, the + When arguments are builtin numeric types with mixed operand types, the coercion rules for binary arithmetic operators apply. For :class:`int` operands, the result has the same type as the operands (after coercion) unless the second argument is negative; in that case, all arguments are