[Python-Dev] right-side binary operations (original) (raw)
Oleg Broytman phd at phd.pp.ru
Fri Mar 19 14:07:34 CET 2010
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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 03:46:07PM +0300, Alex A. Naanou wrote:
>>> class C(object): ... def radd(self, other): ... print 'C: adding C and %s objects.' % other.class.name ... >>> 1 + c C: adding C and int objects.
My first expectation would be to get a TypeError here, as ints indeed have an add method, and they do not know anything about C objects (obviously :) ). On second thought, giving client code priority to handle things has it's merits. The problem is that I found no mention of this behavior in the docs.
It's well-known and documented behavior. It's what r-methods are for. See http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#emulating-numeric-types
"These methods are called to implement the binary arithmetic operations (+, -, *, /, %, divmod(), pow(), **, <<, >>, &, ^, |) with reflected (swapped) operands. These functions are only called if the left operand does not support the corresponding operation and the operands are of different types. [3] For instance, to evaluate the expression x - y, where y is an instance of a class that has an rsub() method, y.rsub(x) is called if x.sub(y) returns NotImplemented."
Oleg.
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