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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Feb 10 01:09:50 CET 2007

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Greg Ewing schrieb:

Might we want to add an in-place version of the 3-arg pow() function one day? What could the syntax for that be?

It wouldn't be a syntax, just a function, e.g.

ipow(x, n, 10)

Also, it would break existing ipow implementations that only receive two arguments

You could consider them broken already, since the signature clearly implies that there could be a third argument. The fact that it's not currently used is no excuse. :-)

-- Greg

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