[Python-Dev] Silly little benchmark

[Greg Ewing]

Tim Peters <tim.one@home.com>:

> It's not BINARY_ADD, it's the PyNumber_Add() called by BINARY_ADD, which,
> given two strings, calls binary_op1, which does a few failing tests, then
> calls PyNumber_CoerceEx, which fails quickly enough to coerce, and then
> pokes around a little looking for number methods, and finally says "hmm!
> maybe it's a sequence?".

This seems to contradict what Guido just said about
centralised coercion having been removed. Is one or
the other of us talking nonsense, or do we misunderstand
each other?

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