On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 1:41 PM Mats Wichmann <m...@wichmann.us> wrote: > > > On 8/9/21 6:34 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > If you want to highlight the OOP nature of Python, rather than looking > > at magic methods, I'd first look at polymorphism. You can add a pair > > of integers; you can add a pair of tuples; you can add a pair of > > strings. Each one logically adds two things together and gives a > > result, and they're all spelled the exact same way. Dunder methods are > > a way for custom classes to slot into that same polymorphism, but the > > polymorphism exists first and the dunders come later. > > > > ChrisA > > > > not disagreeing... and yeah I could have thought deeper about the > answer, but I still think "notthing has been OOP" -> "yes it has, they > just didn't realize it" was worth mentioning
Oh yes, absolutely agree. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
