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Author nassrat
Recipients mark.dickinson, nassrat, pitrou
Date 2008-12-01.11:45:41
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On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Hatem Nassrat <hnassrat@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Mark Dickinson <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
>> Well, there are precedents:
>>
>>>>> type(2**3)
>> <type 'int'>
>>>>> type(2**-3)
>> <type 'float'>
>>
>> My initial reaction to this was negative, but I'm struggling to think of
>> situations where it would be bad.  I'm also struggling to think of
>> situations where it would be useful.   Maybe Monday morning is just a
>> bad time for thinking. :-)

It seems to not be my day either. I think the above behaviour is what
I would expect.
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