[issue22766] collections.Counter's in-place operators should return NotImplemented for unsupported types

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

I think I've changed my mind on this. The important distinction is not between "ducktyping" or "cooperating". It's that this is an in-place mutating operation. A mutating operation should always be the responsibility of the receiver, and so it sounds wrong to be able to delegate it to the read-only operand.

For example, when calling list.extend(op), the list object doesn't allow `op` to take over the operation's semantics. So I think TypeError is the right outcome here.

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