[Python-Dev] PyNumber_*() binary operations & coercion (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas@xs4all.net
Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:14:55 +0200

On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:00:56AM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> I just hope that with all these new operators you haven't > closed the door for switching to argument based handling of > coercion.

Far from it! Actually, the inplace operators won't do any coercions when the left argument supports the inplace version, and otherwise exactly the same rules apply as for the non-inplace version. (I believe this isn't in the patch yet, but it will be when Thomas checks it in.)

Exactly. (Actually, I'm again re-working the patch: If I do it the way I intended to, you'd sometimes get the 'non in-place' error messages, instead of the in-place ones. But the result will be the same.)

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