[docs] Mistake in the Python 3.2.2rc1 "help(set)"

Eli Bendersky eliben at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 18:23:02 CEST 2011


Joao,

Thanks for the report. I have opened issue
http://bugs.python.org/issue13161 to track this problem, with some
initial analysis.

Eli


On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 16:10, Joao Carneiro <joao.flavio at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to report that I found a mistake in the document of
> "help(set)".
> In the document all the __i*__ methods are described exactly like the same
> methods without i before the name.
> Copied from the document:
> __ixor__(...)
>
> x.__ixor__(y) <==> x^y
>
> __xor__(...)
>
> x.__xor__(y) <==> x^y
>
> I suppose that the __ixor__ would mean x^=y and not x^y like the __xor__
> method right?
> This problem also occurs for:
> __iand__
> __ior__
> __isub__
> Best regards,
> Joao Carneiro
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