Is __mul__ sufficient for operator '*'?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:31:44 -0300, Muhammad Alkarouri  
<malkarouri at gmail.com> escribió:

> I was having a go at a simple implementation of Maybe in Python when I
> stumbled on a case where x.__mul__(y) is defined while x*y is not.

__special__ methods are searched in the type, not in the instance  
directly. x*y looks for type(x).__mul__ (among other things)


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Gabriel Genellina