[3.13] gh-130102: drop "require numeric arguments" from pow() docs (GH-137456) (#137537)

miss-islington · skirpichev · orsenthil · web-flow · commit f565c0961af9 · 2025-08-07T18:25:24.000-07:00
gh-130102: drop "require numeric arguments" from pow() docs (GH-137456) (cherry picked from commit 37b5a0d) Co-authored-by: Sergey B Kirpichev <skirpichev@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Senthil Kumaran <senthil@python.org>
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -1565,7 +1565,7 @@ 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
