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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Dear developers:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">__coerce__ does not seem to work in new-style classes, e.g.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">class foo:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> def __int__(self): return 1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> def __coerce__(self,other): return int(self), int(other)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">x = foo()</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">print 1+x</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">works fine, but if foo is derived from object, it fails with:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'foo'</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">After finding this difference, I could not figure out if this was</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">an interpreter error or a documentation error.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><A HREF="http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/coercion-rules.html">http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/coercion-rules.html</A></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">states that: "In Python 3.0, coercion will not be supported."</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">so I thought maybe this was the first round of removing this</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">support.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I googled around for awhile trying to find supporting documentation for</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">this -- it appears it might have to do with PEP 228, but I'm not really</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">sure, so I was hoping someone could point me at a reference point for</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">this statement.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Regards,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Pat Maupin</FONT>
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