Issue with new-style classes and operators

[Jan Decaluwe]

Hi:

I'm confused by the following behavior of new-style classes
and operators:

    class MyInt(object):
        def __init__(self, val):
            self.val = val        
        def __getattr__(self, attr):
            return getattr(self.val, attr)


> python
Python 2.2.2 (#1, Oct 16 2002, 19:59:11) 
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from MyInt import MyInt
>>> a = MyInt(3)
>>> a.__add__(4)
7
>>> a + 4
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: unsupported operand types for +: 'MyInt' and 'int'



I don't think is can be the intention. Or can it?

Regards, Jan

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Jan Decaluwe
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