Unary plus operator and __pos__

[Andrew Durdin]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 01:50:43 -0300, Carlos Ribeiro <carribeiro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Now I'm curious about the operator itself. Why is  the unary plus
> operator associated with the __pos__ magic method? I' can't see a
> relation here, and I could not find much info (although I haven't
> really looked very hard :-)
> 
> Anyone knows why is it so?

Because the unary minus is "associated with" __neg__ (negative). I
guess that __pos__ (positive) was introduced to be consistent.