Terry J. Reedy added the comment: My suggestion from the python-ideas thread:: replace the current
"The function names are those used for special class methods; variants without leading and trailing __ are also provided for convenience." with ""Many function names are those used for special methods, minus the double underscores. For backward compatibility, many of these have a variant with the double underscores kept. We recommend using the dunderless form. Note that operator.__add__(x, y), for instance, being the same as x + y, is not the same as x.__add__(y)." Possibly add ", since the first two may result in calling y.__radd__(x)". Raymond assigned the ---------- assignee: docs@python -> rhettinger nosy: +rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30085> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
