Issue 6573: Fix set.union() for cases where self is in the argument chain.

Lib/test/test_set.py

@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ class TestJointOps(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertEqual(self.thetype('abcba').union(C('ef')), set('abcef'))
             self.assertEqual(self.thetype('abcba').union(C('ef'), C('fg')), set('abcefg'))
 
+        # Issue #6573
+        x = self.thetype()
+        self.assertEqual(x.union(set([1]), x, set([2])), self.thetype([1, 2]))
+
     def test_or(self):
         i = self.s.union(self.otherword)
         self.assertEqual(self.s | set(self.otherword), i)

Misc/NEWS

@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 
 - Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
 
+- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
+  occurred in the argument chain.
+
 - Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
   from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
 

Objects/setobject.c

@@ -1187,7 +1187,7 @@ set_union(PySetObject *so, PyObject *args)
 	for (i=0 ; i<PyTuple_GET_SIZE(args) ; i++) {
 		other = PyTuple_GET_ITEM(args, i);
 		if ((PyObject *)so == other)
-			return (PyObject *)result;
+			continue;
 		if (set_update_internal(result, other) == -1) {
 			Py_DECREF(result);
 			return NULL;