https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f565c0961af93b7984fa80983e04f03126a9d4e0
commit: f565c0961af93b7984fa80983e04f03126a9d4e0
branch: 3.13
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-isling...@users.noreply.github.com>
committer: orsenthil <sent...@python.org>
date: 2025-08-07T18:25:24-07:00
summary:
[3.13] gh-130102: drop "require numeric arguments" from pow() docs (GH-137456)
(#137537)
gh-130102: drop "require numeric arguments" from pow() docs (GH-137456)
(cherry picked from commit 37b5a0d671685645db8f1d5ecfa1260587f1fc28)
Co-authored-by: Sergey B Kirpichev <skirpic...@gmail.com>
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 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
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