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The same way += et al. are in-place: it would ask 'x' to modify itself, if it can. If not, no harm done. (It would be called as 'x = ipow(x, n, 10)' of course, just like 'x += n' is really 'x = x.__iadd__(n)')

On 2/10/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin@v.loewis.de> wrote:

Greg Ewing schrieb:
>> What could the syntax for that be?
>
> It wouldn't be a syntax, just a function, e.g.
>
> ipow(x, n, 10)

In what way would that be inplace? A function cannot

rebind the variables it gets as parameters.

Regards,
Martin
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