[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-421973 ] Coercion rules incomplete

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Bugs item #421973, was opened at 2001-05-07 02:39
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Category: Documentation
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 6
Submitted By: Konrad Hinsen (hinsen)
Assigned to: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Summary: Coercion rules incomplete

Initial Comment:
The description of the coercion rules for numeric types
at
http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/numeric-types.html
is incomplete. Step 3 says "We only get here if neither
x nor y is a class instance. " But step 2a also refers
to step 3 for the case that an explicit coercion
function returns None. It is not clear what happens in
that case.


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Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2001-05-09 11:04

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Guido, can you correct this?  I'm afraid I might get it
wrong.  The coercion rules are strange turf for me.  ;-(

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