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Re: (-1)**1000

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ast wrote:

> If i am writing (-1)**1000 on a python program, will the
> interpreter do (-1)*(-1)*...*(-1) or something clever ?
> 
> In fact i have (-1)**N with N an integer potentially big.
> 
> I do some tests that suggest that Python is clever

Let's see:

$ python3
Python 3.4.0 (default, Apr 11 2014, 13:05:11) 
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import dis
>>> def f():
...     return (-1)**1000
... 
>>> dis.dis(f)
  2           0 LOAD_CONST               4 (1)
              3 RETURN_VALUE

So yes, CPython replaces the expression (-1)**1000 with its value during 
compilation.

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(-1)**1000 "ast" <nomail@invalid.com> - 2014-10-22 10:27 +0200
  Re: (-1)**1000 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-22 19:54 +1100
    Re: (-1)**1000 "ast" <nomail@invalid.com> - 2014-10-22 11:27 +0200
      Re: (-1)**1000 Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-10-22 12:29 +0200
      Re: (-1)**1000 Michiel Overtoom <motoom@xs4all.nl> - 2014-10-22 12:38 +0200
      Re: (-1)**1000 Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-10-22 05:43 -0500
      Re: (-1)**1000 Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-10-22 13:02 +0200
      Re: (-1)**1000 Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-10-22 08:23 -0600
      Re: (-1)**1000 Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-10-22 08:29 -0600
      Re: (-1)**1000 Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-10-22 11:01 -0400
    Re: (-1)**1000 wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-10-22 04:35 -0700
  Re: (-1)**1000 Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-10-22 11:13 +0200
  Re: (-1)**1000 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-10-22 13:15 -0400
  Re: (-1)**1000 Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-10-24 13:57 -0400
  Re: (-1)**1000 Tony the Tiger <tony@tiger.invalid> - 2014-10-26 20:07 +0000
    Re: (-1)**1000 Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-10-26 16:45 -0400
    Re: (-1)**1000 Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2014-10-29 20:31 +0100

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