This is a great post, but I also want to point out that this page is invaluable to any Python developer wanting to know the details about the magic methods: htt

This is a great post, but I also want to point out that this page is invaluable to any Python developer wanting to know the details about the magic methods: http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#special-method-names http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#special-meth... Whenever working on any reasonably complex class, I find that open in a tab to verify that I'm using the magic methods properly, and that they'll be called as I expect.