Question

What are the Dunder/Magic/Special methods in Python? Name a few.

Answer 1

Dunder (derived from double underscore) methods are special/magic predefined methods in Python, with names that start and end with a double underscore. There's nothing really magical about them. Examples of these include:

• init - constructor
• str, repr - object representation (casting to string, printing)
• len, next... - generators
• enter, exit - context managers
• eq, lt, gt - operator overloading