SF patch #1390657:

* set sq_repeat and sq_concat to NULL for user-defined new-style
  classes, as a way to fix a number of related problems.  See
  test_descr.notimplemented()).  One of these problems was fixed
  in r25556 and r25557 but many more existed; this is a general
  fix and thus reverts r25556-r25557.

* to avoid having PySequence_Repeat()/PySequence_Concat() failing
  on user-defined classes, they now fall back to nb_add/nb_mul if
  sq_concat/sq_repeat are not defined and the arguments appear to
  be sequences.

* added tests.

Backport candidate.
diff --git a/Objects/typeobject.c b/Objects/typeobject.c
index 7c36ba4..b74fa1a 100644
--- a/Objects/typeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/typeobject.c
@@ -4095,9 +4095,6 @@
 	return len;
 }
 
-SLOT1(slot_sq_concat, "__add__", PyObject *, "O")
-SLOT1(slot_sq_repeat, "__mul__", int, "i")
-
 /* Super-optimized version of slot_sq_item.
    Other slots could do the same... */
 static PyObject *
@@ -4211,9 +4208,6 @@
 	return result;
 }
 
-SLOT1(slot_sq_inplace_concat, "__iadd__", PyObject *, "O")
-SLOT1(slot_sq_inplace_repeat, "__imul__", int, "i")
-
 #define slot_mp_length slot_sq_length
 
 SLOT1(slot_mp_subscript, "__getitem__", PyObject *, "O")
@@ -4926,12 +4920,17 @@
 static slotdef slotdefs[] = {
 	SQSLOT("__len__", sq_length, slot_sq_length, wrap_inquiry,
 	       "x.__len__() <==> len(x)"),
-	SQSLOT("__add__", sq_concat, slot_sq_concat, wrap_binaryfunc,
-	       "x.__add__(y) <==> x+y"),
-	SQSLOT("__mul__", sq_repeat, slot_sq_repeat, wrap_intargfunc,
-	       "x.__mul__(n) <==> x*n"),
-	SQSLOT("__rmul__", sq_repeat, slot_sq_repeat, wrap_intargfunc,
-	       "x.__rmul__(n) <==> n*x"),
+	/* Heap types defining __add__/__mul__ have sq_concat/sq_repeat == NULL.
+	   The logic in abstract.c always falls back to nb_add/nb_multiply in
+	   this case.  Defining both the nb_* and the sq_* slots to call the
+	   user-defined methods has unexpected side-effects, as shown by
+	   test_descr.notimplemented() */
+	SQSLOT("__add__", sq_concat, NULL, wrap_binaryfunc,
+          "x.__add__(y) <==> x+y"),
+	SQSLOT("__mul__", sq_repeat, NULL, wrap_intargfunc,
+          "x.__mul__(n) <==> x*n"),
+	SQSLOT("__rmul__", sq_repeat, NULL, wrap_intargfunc,
+          "x.__rmul__(n) <==> n*x"),
 	SQSLOT("__getitem__", sq_item, slot_sq_item, wrap_sq_item,
 	       "x.__getitem__(y) <==> x[y]"),
 	SQSLOT("__getslice__", sq_slice, slot_sq_slice, wrap_intintargfunc,
@@ -4953,10 +4952,10 @@
                Use of negative indices is not supported."),
 	SQSLOT("__contains__", sq_contains, slot_sq_contains, wrap_objobjproc,
 	       "x.__contains__(y) <==> y in x"),
-	SQSLOT("__iadd__", sq_inplace_concat, slot_sq_inplace_concat,
-	       wrap_binaryfunc, "x.__iadd__(y) <==> x+=y"),
-	SQSLOT("__imul__", sq_inplace_repeat, slot_sq_inplace_repeat,
-	       wrap_intargfunc, "x.__imul__(y) <==> x*=y"),
+	SQSLOT("__iadd__", sq_inplace_concat, NULL,
+          wrap_binaryfunc, "x.__iadd__(y) <==> x+=y"),
+	SQSLOT("__imul__", sq_inplace_repeat, NULL,
+          wrap_intargfunc, "x.__imul__(y) <==> x*=y"),
 
 	MPSLOT("__len__", mp_length, slot_mp_length, wrap_inquiry,
 	       "x.__len__() <==> len(x)"),