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  r82821 | mark.dickinson | 2010-07-11 19:53:06 +0100 (Sun, 11 Jul 2010) | 3 lines

  Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
  treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_collections.py b/Lib/test/test_collections.py
index 363511f..a0f0fbc 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_collections.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_collections.py
@@ -766,6 +766,19 @@ class TestOrderedDict(unittest.TestCase):
         od.update([('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 9), ('d', 4)], c=3, e=5)
         self.assertEqual(list(od.items()), pairs)                                   # mixed input
 
+        # Issue 9137: Named argument called 'other' or 'self'
+        # shouldn't be treated specially.
+        od = OrderedDict()
+        od.update(self=23)
+        self.assertEqual(list(od.items()), [('self', 23)])
+        od = OrderedDict()
+        od.update(other={})
+        self.assertEqual(list(od.items()), [('other', {})])
+        od = OrderedDict()
+        od.update(red=5, blue=6, other=7, self=8)
+        self.assertEqual(sorted(list(od.items())),
+                         [('blue', 6), ('other', 7), ('red', 5), ('self', 8)])
+
         # Make sure that direct calls to update do not clear previous contents
         # add that updates items are not moved to the end
         d = OrderedDict([('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3), ('d', 44), ('e', 55)])