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O'Reilly learning platform Page Coding constructors
chapter 28, section: coding constructors

6th Edition, Early release, online version, Chapter 28 A More Realistic Example. The 1st paragraph under the subtitle "Coding Constructors". In sentence "Of course, these are known as instance object attributes in Python-speak, and they generally are created by assignment to self attributes in a class’s method functions." Here, "self attributes" shall change to "self arguments".

 Wenjie Wang  Nov 28, 2024 
O'Reilly learning platform Page DELEGATING BUILT-INS—OR NOT
Last paragraph

In chapter 28, section "DELEGATING BUILT-INS—OR NOT", last paragraph.
The sentence "The was a mod in Python 3.X, but isn’t a showstopper: delegation-based classes can still redefine operator-overloading methods to delegate them to wrapped objects, either manually or via tools or superclasses. "
It is perhaps a typo in the beginning "The was...". Not sure it shall be "There was".

 Wenjie Wang  Nov 29, 2024