why does math.pow yields OverflowError (while python itself can calculate that large number)

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:21:36 -0700, Tzury Bar Yochay wrote:

>>>> eval(('100*'* 155)[:-1])
> 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 0000000000000000L
>>>>

This can be written more straigth forward as ``100**155`` or
``pow(100, 155)``.  No need for `eval()`\ing a string.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch