https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2713c2abc8d0f30cd0060cd307bb4ec92f1f04bf
commit: 2713c2abc8d0f30cd0060cd307bb4ec92f1f04bf
branch: main
author: Gouvernathor <[email protected]>
committer: erlend-aasland <[email protected]>
date: 2024-03-01T16:51:47+01:00
summary:

gh-104219: Document that idunders can return NotImplemented (#104220)

Co-authored-by: C.A.M. Gerlach <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <[email protected]>

files:
M Doc/reference/datamodel.rst

diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index 1aef2668e82cd1..82106a41c4c4ed 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -3044,10 +3044,12 @@ left undefined.
    (``+=``, ``-=``, ``*=``, ``@=``, ``/=``, ``//=``, ``%=``, ``**=``, ``<<=``,
    ``>>=``, ``&=``, ``^=``, ``|=``).  These methods should attempt to do the
    operation in-place (modifying *self*) and return the result (which could be,
-   but does not have to be, *self*).  If a specific method is not defined, the
+   but does not have to be, *self*).  If a specific method is not defined, or 
if
+   that method returns :data:`NotImplemented`, the
    augmented assignment falls back to the normal methods.  For instance, if *x*
    is an instance of a class with an :meth:`__iadd__` method, ``x += y`` is
-   equivalent to ``x = x.__iadd__(y)`` . Otherwise, ``x.__add__(y)`` and
+   equivalent to ``x = x.__iadd__(y)`` . If :meth:`__iadd__` does not exist, 
or if ``x.__iadd__(y)``
+   returns :data:`!NotImplemented`, ``x.__add__(y)`` and
    ``y.__radd__(x)`` are considered, as with the evaluation of ``x + y``. In
    certain situations, augmented assignment can result in unexpected errors 
(see
    :ref:`faq-augmented-assignment-tuple-error`), but this behavior is in fact

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