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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 10:27:08 -0700
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 08/13/2014 09:00 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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> What is the rationale for str not having __radd__ method?

At a guess I would say because string only knows how to add itself to other strings, so __add__ is sufficient.

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