Weak Type Ability for Python

[Thomas Passin]

On 4/13/2023 1:38 AM, avi.e.gross at gmail.com wrote:
> In Python, "+" does not
> mean plus at all. It means whatever the programmer wanted it to mean. An
> infix line of code that includes "obj1 + obj2" is supposed to investigate
> how to do it. I am not sure if some built-in objects may be different, but
> it does a sequence of operations till it finds what it needs and does it.

A really nice example of this is pathlib in the standard library.  You 
can write things like this, overloading the "/" operator:

 >>> from pathlib import PurePath
 >>> pth = PurePath('c:/') / 'temp' / 'python'
 >>> pth
PureWindowsPath('c:/temp/python')
 >>> str(pth)
'c:\\temp\\python'