#15438: merge with 3.2.

47e22f93 · Ezio Melotti · 52e2dec8 · 7dddbb2b · 47e22f93
Commit 47e22f93 authored Feb 23, 2013 by Ezio Melotti
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@@ -215,6 +215,10 @@ Power and logarithmic functions
   ``x`` is negative, and ``y`` is not an integer then ``pow(x, y)``
   is undefined, and raises :exc:`ValueError`.
+   Unlike the built-in ``**`` operator, :func:`math.pow` converts both
+   its arguments to type :class:`float`.  Use ``**`` or the built-in
+   :func:`pow` function for computing exact integer powers.
 .. function:: sqrt(x)