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@@ -801,8 +801,7 @@ were of integer types and the second argument was negative, an exception was
raised).
Raising ``0.0`` to a negative power results in a :exc:`ZeroDivisionError`.
-Raising a negative number to a fractional power results in a :class:`complex`
-number. (Since Python 2.6. In earlier versions it raised a :exc:`ValueError`.)
+Raising a negative number to a fractional power results in a :exc:`ValueError`.
.. _unary: