Change ambiguous description of backoff_factor
Change from `^` to `**`. Programmers not familiar with python might assume the ^ is the exponent operator, when in fact it is the bitwise XOR operator. This change will remove the ambiguity.
MODIFY
src/urllib3/util/retry.py
src/urllib3/util/retry.py
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ class Retry(object):
(most errors are resolved immediately by a second try without a
delay). urllib3 will sleep for::
- {backoff factor} * (2 ^ ({number of total retries} - 1))
+ {backoff factor} * (2 ** ({number of total retries} - 1))
seconds. If the backoff_factor is 0.1, then :func:`.sleep` will sleep
for [0.0s, 0.2s, 0.4s, ...] between retries. It will never be longer

Change ambiguous description of backoff_factor (#1436)

Change from `^` to `**`. Programmers not familiar with python might assume the ^ is the exponent operator, when in fact it is the bitwise XOR operator. This change will remove the ambiguity.