[Python-Dev] Why is nb_inplace_power ternary? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Feb 9 09:51:04 CET 2007

Greg Ewing schrieb:

Might we want to add an in-place version of the 3-arg pow() function one day? If so, leaving the third argument there could be useful.

What could the syntax for that be?

Instead of writing

x = pow(x, n, 10)

would you write

x pow n = 10

? or perhaps

x ** n = 10 or x * n *= 10

Also, it would break existing ipow implementations that only receive two arguments (unless there would be another __ method introduced).

Regards, Martin