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  r84301 | daniel.stutzbach | 2010-08-24 15:49:57 -0500 (Tue, 24 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Issue 8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/_abcoll.py b/Lib/_abcoll.py
index d3e23c1e44..cac06e0825 100644
--- a/Lib/_abcoll.py
+++ b/Lib/_abcoll.py
@@ -321,18 +321,24 @@ class MutableSet(Set):
         return self
 
     def __ixor__(self, it: Iterable):
-        if not isinstance(it, Set):
-            it = self._from_iterable(it)
-        for value in it:
-            if value in self:
-                self.discard(value)
-            else:
-                self.add(value)
+        if it is self:
+            self.clear()
+        else:
+            if not isinstance(it, Set):
+                it = self._from_iterable(it)
+            for value in it:
+                if value in self:
+                    self.discard(value)
+                else:
+                    self.add(value)
         return self
 
     def __isub__(self, it: Iterable):
-        for value in it:
-            self.discard(value)
+        if it is self:
+            self.clear()
+        else:
+            for value in it:
+                self.discard(value)
         return self
 
 MutableSet.register(set)