From: Ammar Askar <ammar@ammaraskar.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 16:37:43 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: bpo-38237: Use divmod for positional arguments whatsnew example (GH-19171)
X-Git-Tag: v3.9.0a6~259
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5a58c5280b8df4ca5d6a19892b24fff96e9ea868;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-38237: Use divmod for positional arguments whatsnew example (GH-19171)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
index 09047c460df0..18fb2e07ed77 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
@@ -142,12 +142,11 @@ However, these are invalid calls::
 
 One use case for this notation is that it allows pure Python functions
 to fully emulate behaviors of existing C coded functions.  For example,
-the built-in :func:`pow` function does not accept keyword arguments::
+the built-in :func:`divmod` function does not accept keyword arguments::
 
-  def pow(x, y, z=None, /):
-      "Emulate the built in pow() function"
-      r = x ** y
-      return r if z is None else r%z
+  def divmod(a, b, /):
+      "Emulate the built in divmod() function"
+      return (a // b, a % b)
 
 Another use case is to preclude keyword arguments when the parameter
 name is not helpful.  For example, the builtin :func:`len` function has