From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 20:49:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Don't test here for negative number to float power; that belongs in
X-Git-Tag: v1.4b3~148
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bf51afa049898d2a8f6a18133f8a25a47c15a32f;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Don't test here for negative number to float power; that belongs in
floatobject.c.
---

diff --git a/Python/ceval.c b/Python/ceval.c
index 2520ea2cc332..5c812c076b98 100644
--- a/Python/ceval.c
+++ b/Python/ceval.c
@@ -2282,15 +2282,6 @@ powerop(v, w)
 		err_setstr(TypeError, "pow() requires numeric arguments");
 		return NULL;
 	}
-	if (
-#ifndef WITHOUT_COMPLEX
-            !is_complexobject(v) && 
-#endif
-            is_floatobject(w) && getfloatvalue(v) < 0.0) {
-		if (!err_occurred())
-		    err_setstr(ValueError, "negative number to float power");
-		return NULL;
-	}
 	if (coerce(&v, &w) != 0)
 		return NULL;
 	res = (*v->ob_type->tp_as_number->nb_power)(v, w, None);