bpo-28598: Support __rmod__ for RHS subclasses of str in % string formatting operations (#94)

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
index 3136ea1..9dbded2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -1424,6 +1424,15 @@ class UnicodeTest(string_tests.CommonTest,
         with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
             result = format_string % 2.34
 
+    def test_issue28598_strsubclass_rhs(self):
+        # A subclass of str with an __rmod__ method should be able to hook
+        # into the % operator
+        class SubclassedStr(str):
+            def __rmod__(self, other):
+                return 'Success, self.__rmod__({!r}) was called'.format(other)
+        self.assertEqual('lhs %% %r' % SubclassedStr('rhs'),
+                         "Success, self.__rmod__('lhs %% %r') was called")
+
     @support.cpython_only
     def test_formatting_huge_precision_c_limits(self):
         from _testcapi import INT_MAX