[HelloNurse]

This type confusion would have been identical with a plain function, __add__ is only syntactic sugar:

    class MyNum(int):
        def ten_times_sum (self, other):
            return (self+other)* 10

    n = MyNum(12)
    a = 45
    print(n.ten_times_sum(a)) 

Compare with, for example, fouling the state of output streams from operator>> in C++.

[pjmlp]

Hardly any different, trying to pretend Python is somehow better.

Operator overload is indeed syntactic sugar for function calls, regardless of the language.

By the way, you can overload >> in Python via rshift(), or __rshift__() methods.

[HelloNurse]

Of course I can overload >> in Python, but I cannot foul up output stream state because it doesn't exist. Formally there is little difference between C++ and Python operator overloading and both languages have good syntax for it, but C++ has many rough edges in the standard library and intrinsic complications that can make operator overloading much more interesting in practice. For instance, overload resolution is rarely trivial.

[pjmlp]

It is only one pip install away, if anyone bothers to make on such set of overloads.

[boxed]

People don't though. That's the big difference. There's a certain taste in the Python community.