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Diffstat (limited to 'Objects')
| -rw-r--r-- | Objects/longobject.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/longobject.c b/Objects/longobject.c index 048b8e5..85b26a3 100644 --- a/Objects/longobject.c +++ b/Objects/longobject.c @@ -1543,14 +1543,13 @@ long_pow(PyObject *v, PyObject *w, PyObject *x) size_b = b->ob_size; if (size_b < 0) { - if (a->ob_size) - PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, - "long integer to a negative power"); - else - PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ZeroDivisionError, - "zero to a negative power"); - z = NULL; - goto error; + /* Return a float. This works because we know that + this calls float_pow() which converts its + arguments to double. */ + Py_DECREF(a); + Py_DECREF(b); + Py_DECREF(c); + return PyFloat_Type.tp_as_number->nb_power(v, w, x); } z = (PyLongObject *)PyLong_FromLong(1L); for (i = 0; i < size_b; ++i) { |