From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 15:57:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: News about Neil's fix to correctly invoke __rmul__.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~4580
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d81a9834f76daaf3bc689da64c8e9514eae46e48;p=python

News about Neil's fix to correctly invoke __rmul__.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f3971617a4..d92d0f224e 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes
 
 Core and builtins
 
+- When x is an object whose class implements __mul__ and __rmul__,
+  1.0*x would correctly invoke __rmul__, but 1*x would erroneously
+  invoke __mul__.  This was due to the sequence-repeat code in the int
+  type.  This has been fixed now.
+
 - Previously, "str1 in str2" required str1 to be a string of length 1.
   This restriction has been relaxed to allow str1 to be a string of
   any length.  Thus "'el' in 'hello world'" returns True now.