On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:34:39 am Ricardo Aráoz wrote: > So why would the coders of the math module go to the trouble of > creating the pow function?
http://docs.python.org/library/math.html#math.pow http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#pow The math module is mostly a thin wrapper around the native C maths library. The builtin pow function has more capabilities, and came before the ** operator. > Did they create a sum function As a matter of fact they did: http://docs.python.org/library/math.html#math.fsum -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
