On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 14:34, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > However, returning NotImplemented generally implies that A and B are > *different* classes
Which is exactly the case here. > so I think this is more of a theoretical problem > than a practical one. How so? The whole point of returning NotImplemented is to give the other class a go. But if that other class implements this recipe, you get infinite recursion. It seems to me that it means that this recipe is broken, as it doesn't handle the other class returning NotImplemented. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ 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
