Ethan Furman added the comment:
Thank you, Raymond, both for your concern and your discretion.
My interest in changing the "can" or "may" to "should" is that, whatever the
original intent of the PEP, the way Python works /now/ is that any class that
doesn't return NotImplemented when it /should/ is not going to interoperate
well with other compatible classes.
At the heart of the issue is what happens when
def bin_op(self, other):
...
is called, but the left-hand operand doesn't know how to work with the
right-hand operand?
We have three choices:
- do nothing, letting any exceptions boil up or errors propagate
- do a check on 'other' to determine if it's usable, and raise an exception
if it is not
- do a check on 'other' to determine if it's usable, and return NotImplemented
if it is not
Only the last choice allows 'other' to also try the operation. Except for the
special-case of in-place bin-ops, why would we not want choice three?
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