https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/37b5a0d671685645db8f1d5ecfa1260587f1fc28
commit: 37b5a0d671685645db8f1d5ecfa1260587f1fc28
branch: main
author: Sergey B Kirpichev <skirpic...@gmail.com>
committer: orsenthil <sent...@python.org>
date: 2025-08-07T23:43:18Z
summary:
gh-130102: drop "require numeric arguments" from pow() docs (#137456)
Co-authored-by: Senthil Kumaran <sent...@python.org>
files:
M Doc/library/functions.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 80bd1275973f8d..857b40f3ba155c 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -1577,7 +1577,7 @@ 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
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