SF bug 115831 and Ping's SF patch 101751, 0.0**-2.0 returns inf rather than

raise ValueError.  Checked in the patch as far as it went, but also changed
all of ints, longs and floats to raise ZeroDivisionError instead when raising
0 to a negative number.  This is what 754-inspired stds require, as the "true
result" is an infinity obtained from finite operands, i.e. it's a singularity.
Also changed float pow to not be so timid about using its square-and-multiply
algorithm.  Note that what math.pow does is unrelated to what builtin pow
does, and will still vary by platform.
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Tim Peters 2000-10-06 00:36:09 +00:00
parent 4779a0a6fd
commit c54d19043a
4 changed files with 102 additions and 62 deletions

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@ -483,8 +483,12 @@ int_pow(PyIntObject *v, PyIntObject *w, PyIntObject *z)
iv = v->ob_ival;
iw = w->ob_ival;
if (iw < 0) {
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
"integer to the negative power");
if (iv)
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
"integer to a negative power");
else
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ZeroDivisionError,
"0 to a negative power");
return NULL;
}
if ((PyObject *)z != Py_None) {