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hi,
I met a problem when using the built-in function pow().
here is the code:

In [1]: pow(-2, 1/3)
Out [1]: (0.6299605249474367+1.0911236359717214j)
In [2]: (-2) ** 1/3
Out [2]: -0.6666666666666666

The document says pow(x, y) is equivalent to x ** y, but it is different here.
Why??
I use python3.6, anaconda Spyder.

Operator precedence implies that

>>> (-2) ** 1/3 == ((-2) ** 1)/3
True

which is different from (-2) ** (1/3)