Tim Chase wrote: >>> Can these operators be overloaded? >> >> Yes. > > With the caveat of the "=" mentioned in the subject-line (being > different from "==")...I haven't found any way to override > assignment in the general case. There might be some oddball way > to do it via property() but AFAIK, this only applies to > properties of objects, not top-level names/variables. I'd love > to know if there's some workaround for this though...
In almost all cases, binding a name cannot be overridden. There is a possibility to do that with globals, provided you do exec code in globals_dict where globals_dict is an instance of a subclass of dict that has a customized __setitem__. Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
