[Python-Dev] Why is nb_inplace_power ternary?

[Thomas Wouters]

The same way += et al. are in-place: it would ask 'x' to modify itself, if
it can. If not, no harm done. (It would be called as 'x = ipow(x, n, 10)' of
course, just like 'x += n' is really 'x = x.__iadd__(n)')

On 2/10/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>
> Greg Ewing schrieb:
> >> What could the syntax for that be?
> >
> > It wouldn't be a syntax, just a function, e.g.
> >
> >    ipow(x, n, 10)
>
> In what way would that be inplace? A function cannot
> rebind the variables it gets as parameters.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
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