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necavi on Feb 5, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Migrating to Python 3 with pleasure

Python allows the overriding of just about every operator. For Pathlib they overrode the division operator to instead perform path addition in a platform agnostic manner.

glandium on Feb 5, 2018 [–]

> Python allows the overriding of just about every operator.

Except the boolean operators (and, or, not). For instance __and__ overrides the binary and (&), not the boolean and.

Cyphase on Feb 5, 2018 | [–]

That's True, but you _can_ override __bool__.[1]

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__...

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