For some reason (probably cut and paste), __ipow__ for new-style
classes was called with three arguments. This makes no sense, there's
no way to pass in the "modulo" 3rd argument as for __pow__, and
classic classes don't do this. [SF bug 620179]
I don't want to backport this to 2.2.2, because it could break
existing code that has developed a work-around. Code in 2.2.2 that
wants to use __ipow__ and wants to be forward compatible with 2.3
should be written like this:
def __ipow__(self, exponent, modulo=None):
...
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_descr.py b/Lib/test/test_descr.py
index 0c7def1..c9bd1cd 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_descr.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_descr.py
@@ -3306,6 +3306,16 @@
vereq(2*a, "rmul")
vereq(2.2*a, "rmul")
+def testipow():
+ # [SF bug 620179]
+ if verbose:
+ print "Testing correct invocation of __ipow__..."
+ class C(object):
+ def __ipow__(self, other):
+ pass
+ a = C()
+ a **= 2
+
def do_this_first():
if verbose:
print "Testing SF bug 551412 ..."
@@ -3401,6 +3411,7 @@
slottrash()
slotmultipleinheritance()
testrmul()
+ testipow()
if verbose: print "All OK"
if __name__ == "__main__":