Thanks to all of you Some useful ideas in there, even if some of them stretch my current knowledge of the language.
C++ to Python is a steep 'unlearning' curve... Phil "Philip Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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???? > > Thanks > > Phil > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list