New submission from Marcelo Delgado marde...@gmail.com:
I have found inconsistency between running this code in the interactive shell
and running it from a file:
Int. Shell:
n**0 ## n is a negative number
result: -1
File:
n**0 ## n is a negative number
result: 1
I am fairly new to Python, so
Changes by Marcelo Delgado marde...@gmail.com:
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components: +Interpreter Core -Regular Expressions
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Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org
http://bugs.python.org/issue14825
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Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment:
It sounds like you're seeing the difference between this:
n = -7
n ** 0
1
and this:
-7 ** 0
-1
This isn't a bug; it's to do with how Python expressions are parsed: in the
second case, the expression is grouped as -(7 ** 0) rather
