[issue38302] __pow__ and __rpow__ are not reached when __ipow__ returns NotImplemented for **=

Brett Cannon added the comment: I have opened https://bugs.python.org/issue41688 to track the documentation fixes so that this can become a release blocker for Python 3.10. -- priority: high -> release blocker versions: -Python 3.8, Python 3.9

[issue38302] __pow__ and __rpow__ are not reached when __ipow__ returns NotImplemented for **=

Brett Cannon added the comment: It turns out **= ONLY calls __ipow__ and neither __pow__ or __rpow__ as the data model says should be called. - Data Model: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__ipow__ - PyNumber_InPlacePower():