[Python-ideas] User-defined literals

[Guido van Rossum]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas <
python-ideas at python.org> wrote:

> But this isn't actually true. That BINARY_ADD opcode looks up the addition
> method at runtime and calls it. And that means that if you monkeypatch
> complex.__radd__, your method will get called.
>

Wrong. You can't moneypatch complex.__radd__. That's a feature of the
language.

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