Report from Joao Carneiro in the docs@ maillist:

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I would like to report that I found a mistake in the document of "help(set)".

In the document all the __i*__ methods are described exactly like the same methods without i before the name.

Copied from the document:
__ixor__(...)

    x.__ixor__(y) <==> x^y


__xor__(...)

    x.__xor__(y) <==> x^y


I suppose that the __ixor__ would mean x^=y and not x^y like the __xor__ method right?

This problem also occurs for:
__iand__
__ior__
__isub__

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The report is on Python 3.2, but the problem also exists in 2.7

It appears that the problem's source is in Objects/typeobject.c, where the __i*__ operators are defined with the IBSLOT macro. The documentation string is the operator, passed to IBSLOT - for __ixor__ it's "^", while it should probably be "^="

New changeset 369487785e9f by Eli Bendersky in branch '2.7':
Issue #13161: fix doc strings of __i*__ operators
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/369487785e9f

New changeset 9fbaa190f011 by Eli Bendersky in branch '3.2':
Issue #13161: fix doc strings of __i*__ operators
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/9fbaa190f011

New changeset d58de3e9870a by Eli Bendersky in branch 'default':
Issue #13161: fix doc strings of __i*__ operators. Closes #13161
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d58de3e9870a