vincent wehren wrote: > Philip Smith wrote: >> Call this a C++ programmers hang-up if you like. >> >> I don't seem to be able to define multiple versions of __init__ in my matrix >> class (ie to initialise either from a list of values or from 2 dimensions >> (rows/columns)). >> >> Even if Python couldn't resolve the __init__ to use on the basis of argument >> types surely it could do so on the basis of argument numbers??? >> >> At any rate - any suggestions how I code this???? > > Checking the number of arguments ain't all that hard: > > class Klass: > def __init__(*args): > self.args = args > if len(self.args) == 1: > # etc. > > This feels rather unpythonic, though.
And it won't work, as `self' is not defined. ;) Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
