in-place exponentiation incongruities

[Giacomo Alzetta]

Il giorno domenica 12 agosto 2012 23:53:46 UTC+2, Terry Reedy ha scritto:
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> Are you actually planning to do this, or is this purely theoretical?
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Yes, I do plan to implement ipow.

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> Not true. Whether the function is coded in Python or C
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> cls.__ipow__(base, exp, mod) # or
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> base.__ipow__(exp, mod)
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> > while he would be able to
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> > call the normal version with the third argument.

Yes, that's true. But I find that calling a special-method in that way is *really* ugly. I'd think that the pow built-in function was probably inserted to avoid writing base.__pow__(exp, mod).