That's the wrong part of the doc. You refer to the binary operators || and &&, etc. This is the correct part: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.h

That's the wrong part of the doc. You refer to the binary operators || and &&, etc. This is the correct part: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html?highlight=operators#boolean-operations https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html?highlig... Edit: you can't override "and" and "or" with dunder methods.