[New-bugs-announce] [issue29139] operator.concat/iconcat could only work if left operand is a sequence

[Xiang Zhang]

New submission from Xiang Zhang:

As the title, but I think it should also continue if only the right operand is a sequence since the right operand could get a __radd__ to do the concatenation:

>>> class S:
...     def __init__(self):
...             self.v = list(range(10))
...     def __radd__(self, other):
...             print('in __radd__')
...             self.v.extend(other)
...             return self.v
...     def __getitem__(self, idx):
...             return self.v[idx]
>>> def i():
...     yield from range(10, 20)
>>> i() + S()
in __radd__
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19]
>>> operator.concat(i(), S())
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'generator' object can't be concatenated
>>> a = i()
>>> a += S()
in __radd__
>>> a
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19]
>>> a = i()
>>> operator.iconcat(a, S())
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'generator' object can't be concatenated

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 284546
nosy: xiang.zhang
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: operator.concat/iconcat could only work if left operand is a sequence
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7

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