Great article, definitely bookmarking this. I think it's important to give a reminder somewhere that modifying the magic methods really should be done with care

Great article, definitely bookmarking this. I think it's important to give a reminder somewhere that modifying the magic methods really should be done with care. People new to Python could use this in a brute force way, when logic could do the trick. Working for example with a framework like web2py, that re-implements a bunch of these, makes development slow and laborious sometimes.