[Python-Dev] operator precedence of __eq__, __ne__, etc, if both object have implementations

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Sep 24 02:34:40 CEST 2009


Chris Withers wrote:

> But this isn't coercion! :-)

The raisin is probably hysterical. Once upon a time, Python
had a __coerce__ special method that took care of things
like this in a different (and inferior) way. It gradually
got replaced by the current scheme, but nobody changed the
section heading in the docs.

-- 
Greg


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