On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:51:39 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: > If the conversion to Decimal in _convert_other() fails, the operator > method returns NotImplemented to signal to the interpreter that Decimal > doesn't know how to do the requested operation with an operand of the > given type; the interpreter will fall back by calling the reflected > method of the other operand.
I knew that works with comparisons __eq__ etc, but somehow I had a mental blank about arithmetic operators! Yes, you're right, and the docs say so explicitly. Somehow I had convinced myself that NotImplemented only worked with comparisons. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
