[issue46828] math.prod can return integers (contradicts doc)

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger  added the comment:

I'll add a note that the output type is determined by the input type.

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[issue46828] math.prod can return integers (contradicts doc)

[Neil Webber]

New submission from Neil Webber :

The math module documentation says:

   Except when explicitly noted otherwise, all return values are floats.

But this code returns an integer:

   from math import prod; prod((1,2,3))

Doc should "explicitly note otherwise" here, I imagine. The issue being wanting 
to know that the result on all-integer input will be an exact (integer) value 
not a floating value.

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title: math.prod can return integers (contradicts doc)
type: behavior

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