From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 15:57:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: News about Neil's fix to correctly invoke __rmul__.
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News about Neil's fix to correctly invoke __rmul__.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 9852beb9eade..c0edcf48a900 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ Release date: dd-mmm-2002
 
 Core and builtins
 
+- When x is an object whose class implements __mul__ and __rmul__,
+  1.0*x would correctly invoke __rmul__, but 1*x would erroneously
+  invoke __mul__.  This was due to the sequence-repeat code in the int
+  type.  This has been fixed now.
+
 - If a dying instance of a new-style class got resurrected by its class's
   __del__ method, Python aborted with a fatal error.