On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Alexander Belopolsky < [email protected]> wrote: >> >> FWIW you're wrong when you claim that "a constructor is no different from any other method". Someone else should probably explain this (it's an old argument that's been thoroughly settled). > > > Well, the best answer I've got in the past [1] was "ask on python-dev since Guido called the operator overriding expectation." :-)
And let me repost this bit of history [1]: Here is the annotated pre-r82065 code: 39876 gvanrossum def __add__(self, other): 39876 gvanrossum if isinstance(other, timedelta): 39928 gvanrossum return self.__class__(self.__days + other.__days, 39876 gvanrossum self.__seconds + other.__seconds, 39876 gvanrossum self.__microseconds + other.__microseconds) 40207 tim_one return NotImplemented 39876 gvanrossum [1] http://bugs.python.org/issue2267#msg125979
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