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On long to the negative long power, let float handle it instead of

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raising an error.  This was one of the two issues that the VPython
folks were particularly problematic for their students.  (The other
one was integer division...)  This implements (my) SF patch #440487.
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Guido van Rossum 2001-07-12 11:21:17 +00:00
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@ -1543,14 +1543,13 @@ long_pow(PyObject *v, PyObject *w, PyObject *x)
size_b = b->ob_size; size_b = b->ob_size;
if (size_b < 0) { if (size_b < 0) {
if (a->ob_size) /* Return a float. This works because we know that
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, this calls float_pow() which converts its
"long integer to a negative power"); arguments to double. */
else Py_DECREF(a);
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ZeroDivisionError, Py_DECREF(b);
"zero to a negative power"); Py_DECREF(c);
z = NULL; return PyFloat_Type.tp_as_number->nb_power(v, w, x);
goto error;
} }
z = (PyLongObject *)PyLong_FromLong(1L); z = (PyLongObject *)PyLong_FromLong(1L);
for (i = 0; i < size_b; ++i) { for (i = 0; i < size_b; ++i) {