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Author orsenthil
Recipients eswar.s, orsenthil
Date 2010-10-10.06:49:33
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It's to do with operator precedence.
** takes higher precedence than negative.

http://docs.python.org/reference/expressions.html#Summary


(-5) ** 4 will give what you are looking for.
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