From 4c1ca492b5b309ea20c4b85605d0ed718720824b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergey B Kirpichev Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2025 02:43:18 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- Doc/library/functions.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 4453a083327af4..d9fb5900e08ee4 100644 --- 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