Why return NotImplemented instead of raising NotImplementedError

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8789...

Question links:
[NotImplemented]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/consta...
[NotImplementedError]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/except...

Accepted answer links:
http://jcalderone.livejournal.com/32837....

Answer 2 links:
[NotImplemented]: https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/cons...
[exception NotImplementedError]: https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/exce...

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