[Tutor] Tips

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Thu Jun 19 14:25:05 CEST 2014


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 06:36:12PM -0700, Danny Yoo wrote:
> [content about __add__ dispatch resolution cut]
> 
> 
> We should remember the target audience, lest this thread doesn't
> spiral away so that only the tutors are talking to each other.  I'm
> guilty of this as anyone, mind you.  Pot.  Kettle.  :P

Perhaps so, but I wasn't answering the OP, I was answering Albert, who
asked a perfectly reasonable follow-up question about + and the __add__
method.

Discussion threads often go in strange and interesting directions.

[...]
> and if the discussion is going to be on how __add__, __ladd__, and
> __radd__ all work in concert, then that might a hard right turn for
> beginners.

__ L add__ ???

:-)



-- 
Steven


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