They're also not as well documented as they need to be.   
    All of the magic methods for Python appear in the same 
    section in the Python docs, but they're scattered about 
    and only loosely organized. 
    There's hardly an example to be found in that section 
    (and that may very well be by design, since they're all 
    detailed in the language reference, along with boring 
    syntax descriptions, etc.).