Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Terry: can you propose an alternative wording? I don't think that the discussion of TypeError belongs into the description of NotImplemented, though.
IIUC, NotImplemented was added for performance reasons; returning a value is much faster than raising an exception. The return only requires an INCREF/DECREF pair, and a pointer identity test. The exception requires to create a new object, possibly a traceback, and a subclass check on exception matching. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15997> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
