Armin Rigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course, speaking of a rewrite, PyPy does the "right thing" in > these two areas. Won't happen to CPython, though. There are too > much backward-compatibility issues with the PyTypeObject > structure; I think we're doomed with patching the bugs as they > show up.
This is definitely something that should be cleaned up for Python 3k. > Looking up in the language reference, I see no mention of NotImplemented > in the page about __add__, __radd__, etc. I guess it's a documentation > bug as well, isn't it? The current code base tries to implement the > following behavior: Returning NotImplemented from any of the binary > special methods (__xxx__, __rxxx__, __ixxx__) makes Python proceed as if > the method was not defined in the first place. > > If we agree on this, I could propose a doc fix, a test, and appropriate > bug fixes. I believe that's correct. Neil _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com