From 12893accfc6b08193ccedd4a903c0735c84931df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sidharth Mundhra <sidharthmundhra16@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 22:45:40 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Added powsimp before calling pow_heuristics in limits

---
 sympy/series/limits.py            | 21 +++++++++++----------
 sympy/series/tests/test_limits.py |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sympy/series/limits.py b/sympy/series/limits.py
index 5b5b83d10751..a085ddcd372c 100644
--- a/sympy/series/limits.py
+++ b/sympy/series/limits.py
@@ -175,20 +175,20 @@ def free_symbols(self):
         return isyms
 
 
-    def pow_heuristics(self):
+    def pow_heuristics(self, e):
         from sympy import exp, log
-        expr, z, z0, _ = self.args
-        b, e = expr.base, expr.exp
-        if not b.has(z):
-            res = limit(e*log(b), z, z0)
+        _, z, z0, _ = self.args
+        b1, e1 = e.base, e.exp
+        if not b1.has(z):
+            res = limit(e1*log(b1), z, z0)
             return exp(res)
 
-        ex_lim = limit(e, z, z0)
-        base_lim = limit(b, z, z0)
+        ex_lim = limit(e1, z, z0)
+        base_lim = limit(b1, z, z0)
 
         if base_lim is S.One:
             if ex_lim in (S.Infinity, S.NegativeInfinity):
-                res = limit(e*(b - 1), z, z0)
+                res = limit(e1*(b1 - 1), z, z0)
                 return exp(res)
         if base_lim is S.NegativeInfinity and ex_lim is S.Infinity:
             return S.ComplexInfinity
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ def doit(self, **hints):
         hints : optional keyword arguments
             To be passed to ``doit`` methods; only used if deep is True.
         """
-        from sympy import Abs, sign
+        from sympy import Abs, powsimp, sign
 
         e, z, z0, dir = self.args
 
@@ -295,8 +295,9 @@ def set_signs(expr):
             coeff, ex = newe.leadterm(z, cdir=cdir)
         except (ValueError, NotImplementedError, PoleError):
             # The NotImplementedError catching is for custom functions
+            e = powsimp(e)
             if e.is_Pow:
-                r = self.pow_heuristics()
+                r = self.pow_heuristics(e)
                 if r is not None:
                     return r
         else:
diff --git a/sympy/series/tests/test_limits.py b/sympy/series/tests/test_limits.py
index 9ac7a02619a0..6c324df14cd1 100644
--- a/sympy/series/tests/test_limits.py
+++ b/sympy/series/tests/test_limits.py
@@ -1010,3 +1010,7 @@ def test_issue_21756():
 def test_issue_21785():
     a = Symbol('a')
     assert sqrt((-a**2 + x**2)/(1 - x**2)).limit(a, 1, '-') == I
+
+
+def test_issue_22181():
+    assert limit((-1)**x * 2**(-x), x, oo) == 0