[Python-checkins] r57255 - python/trunk/Doc/reference/expressions.rst

[georg.brandl]

Author: georg.brandl
Date: Tue Aug 21 08:07:08 2007
New Revision: 57255

Modified:
   python/trunk/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
Log:
Bug #1777160: mention explicitly that e.g. -1**2 is -1.


Modified: python/trunk/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
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--- python/trunk/Doc/reference/expressions.rst	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/reference/expressions.rst	Tue Aug 21 08:07:08 2007
@@ -789,7 +789,7 @@
 
 Thus, in an unparenthesized sequence of power and unary operators, the operators
 are evaluated from right to left (this does not constrain the evaluation order
-for the operands).
+for the operands): ``-1**2`` results in ``-1``.
 
 The power operator has the same semantics as the built-in :func:`pow` function,
 when called with two arguments: it yields its left argument raised to the power