[Python-checkins] Fix "versionchanged" for pow named arguments (GH-19042) (GH-19079)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2477aed12d409c78a16ec435e01cee235af53221
commit: 2477aed12d409c78a16ec435e01cee235af53221
branch: 3.8
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2020-03-19T18:35:02Z
summary:

Fix "versionchanged" for pow named arguments (GH-19042) (GH-19079)

The ability to use named arguments in "pow" was introduced in Python 3.8, not Python 3.9. See https://bugs.python.org/issue38237
(cherry picked from commit c691f209523e20797c7b696c3f171b37429f5b3f)

Co-authored-by: Mark Dickinson <mdickinson at enthought.com>

files:
M Doc/library/functions.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 6feb26c4f25a6..0f7df0e5e9107 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -1304,7 +1304,7 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
       the second argument to be negative, permitting computation of modular
       inverses.
 
-   .. versionchanged:: 3.9
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.8
       Allow keyword arguments.  Formerly, only positional arguments were
       supported.