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charolastra

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Keyword “typically”. If I’m overriding dunder methods, then I’ll typically need to call the super method as well. It’s not like it’s forbidden.

Consider the following:

class MyStr(str):
     def len(self):
          return len(self)
          # OR
          return self.__len__()

Both of the above return values are perfectly valid Python.

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At the end of the day, len(ob) just defers to ob.__len__() so both are correct, just one’s more functional and one’s more object oriented.

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