Numpy allows you to exponentiate a diagonal matrix with positive elements directly.
Please note that it is recommended to use numpy's array instead of matrix: see this paragraph in the user guide. The confusion in some of the responses is an example of what can go wrong... In particular, D**0.5 and the products are elementwise if applied to numpy arrays, which would give you a wrong answer. For example.
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