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On 8/3/2014 9:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

stuff based on an understandable misunderstanding of what I wrote.

> Terry Reedy wrote:
>
>> The object class is used to implement duck typing.  It is the delegation
>> of operations to class instance methods that makes extensible duck
>> typing possible.

I left off "'s". The object's class ...

'class instance methods' = class attributes that are instance methods. I 
was alluding to the fact that magic methods are looked up directly on 
the class and not the instance.

Sorry for the confusion.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy