Bug overriding operators in new-style classes?
 

Hi all,

I found a surprising behavior regarding new-style classes operator lookup.
It seems that for operators, the instance methods are ignored. Observe:

>>> class C:
.... def foo(self):
.... print 'foo'
.... def __setitem__(self, k, v):
.... print 'C.__setitem__', k, v
....
>>> c = C()
>>> c.foo()
foo
>>> c[1] = 1
C.__setitem__ 1 1
>>> def my_foo():
.... print 'my_foo'
....
>>> def my_setitem(k, v):
.... print 'my_setitem', k, v
....
>>> c.foo = my_foo
>>> c.__setitem__ = my_setitem
>>> c.foo()
my_foo
>>> c[1] = 1
my_setitem 1 1
>>>

All is well. Now, if you use a new-style class, the instance method is not
called:

>>> class C(object):
.... def foo(self):
.... print 'foo'
.... def __setitem__(self, k, v):
.... print 'C.__setitem__', k, v
....
>>> c = C()
>>> c.foo()
foo
>>> c[1] = 1
C.__setitem__ 1 1
>>> def my_foo():
.... print 'my_foo'
....
>>> def my_setitem(k, v):
.... print 'my_setitem', k, v
....
>>> c.foo = my_foo
>>> c.__setitem__ = my_setitem
>>> c.foo()
my_foo
>>> c[1] = 1
C.__setitem__ 1 1 # should print "my_setitem 1 1"
>>>

Is this a bug, or am I missing something? Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Nicodemus.