Matthew Wilson wrote: > What are the internal methods that I need to define on any class so that > this code can work? > > c = C("three") > > i = int(c) # i is 3 > > I can handle the part of mapping "three" to 3, but I don't know what > internal method is called when int(c) happens.
>>> class C(object): ... def __int__(self): return 42 ... >>> int(C()) 42 > For string conversion, I just define the __str__ method. What's the > equivalent for int? For float, too, while I'm at it? http://docs.python.org/ref/numeric-types.html Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list