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You’re correct. In GvR’s own words: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-November/004643.html https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-

• masklinn 3y ago
  Thanks. I may have already read that post (or I just correctly backtracked the reasoning), as I was pretty much convinced namespacing conflict (the second bit of rationale) was a factor for the dunder-ing of methods, but I had no source so ultimately decided not to put it in.