Are you willing to wait 10 days for an answer? I'm out of round tuits for a while.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Alexander Belopolsky < alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Alexander Belopolsky < > alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> FWIW you're wrong when you claim that "a constructor is no different > from any other method". Someone else should probably explain this (it's an > old argument that's been thoroughly settled). > > > > > > Well, the best answer I've got in the past [1] was "ask on python-dev > since Guido called the operator overriding expectation." :-) > > > And let me repost this bit of history [1]: > > Here is the annotated pre-r82065 code: > > 39876 gvanrossum def __add__(self, other): > 39876 gvanrossum if isinstance(other, timedelta): > 39928 gvanrossum return self.__class__(self.__days + > other.__days, > 39876 gvanrossum self.__seconds + > other.__seconds, > 39876 gvanrossum self.__microseconds + > other.__microseconds) > 40207 tim_one return NotImplemented > 39876 gvanrossum > > > [1] http://bugs.python.org/issue2267#msg125979 > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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