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Re: in-place exponentiation incongruities

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Date 2012-08-14 00:14 -0700
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Subject Re: in-place exponentiation incongruities
From Giacomo Alzetta <giacomo.alzetta@gmail.com>
Message-ID <mailman.3253.1344928503.4697.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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

Yes, I do plan to implement ipow.

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

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in-place exponentiation incongruities Giacomo Alzetta <giacomo.alzetta@gmail.com> - 2012-08-11 09:54 -0700
  Re: in-place exponentiation incongruities Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-08-12 04:28 +0000
    Re: in-place exponentiation incongruities Giacomo Alzetta <giacomo.alzetta@gmail.com> - 2012-08-12 00:14 -0700
      Re: in-place exponentiation incongruities Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-08-12 11:03 +0000
        Re: in-place exponentiation incongruities Giacomo Alzetta <giacomo.alzetta@gmail.com> - 2012-08-12 04:55 -0700
          Re: in-place exponentiation incongruities Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-08-12 17:53 -0400
            Re: in-place exponentiation incongruities Giacomo Alzetta <giacomo.alzetta@gmail.com> - 2012-08-14 00:14 -0700
            Re: in-place exponentiation incongruities Giacomo Alzetta <giacomo.alzetta@gmail.com> - 2012-08-14 00:14 -0700

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