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-rw-r--r--Lib/_abcoll.py10
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_collections.py13
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
3 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/_abcoll.py b/Lib/_abcoll.py
index e9f06a5..cc00fd9 100644
--- a/Lib/_abcoll.py
+++ b/Lib/_abcoll.py
@@ -480,7 +480,15 @@ class MutableMapping(Mapping):
except KeyError:
pass
- def update(self, other=(), **kwds):
+ def update(*args, **kwds):
+ if len(args) > 2:
+ raise TypeError("update() takes at most 2 positional "
+ "arguments ({} given)".format(len(args)))
+ elif not args:
+ raise TypeError("update() takes at least 1 argument (0 given)")
+ self = args[0]
+ other = args[1] if len(args) >= 2 else ()
+
if isinstance(other, Mapping):
for key in other:
self[key] = other[key]
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_collections.py b/Lib/test/test_collections.py
index e595b75..69c4a9f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_collections.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_collections.py
@@ -758,6 +758,19 @@ 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)])
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 474ae02..1b0c3d1 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -473,6 +473,9 @@ C-API
Library
-------
+- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
+ treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
+
- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows set literals.
- Issue #9164: Ensure that sysconfig handles duplicate -arch flags in CFLAGS.