Mark Dickinson added the comment: Gah! Peephole optimizer! When you do a timeit for '3.14 ** 0.5', you're just evaluating the time to retrieve a constant!
In general, `**` is going to be both slower *and* less accurate than math.sqrt. Please don't make this change! ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24059> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
