Spurious coercing? [was: Re: 'if foo' calls getattr?!?]

[Moshe Zadka]

On 6 Jun 2000, [ISO-8859-1] François Pinard wrote:

> And I would presume that if __cmp__ happened to be found, a call to
> __coerce__ would be tried before going any further?

Yes, indeed. The reason is that Python tries very hard *not* to be smart:
the opposite of smart, in this case, being predictable. If you know
__coerce__ is always called before binary operators take place, your code
can be that much simpler.


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