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Sat Feb 10 01:09:50 CET 2007 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-February/070912.html

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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