Achim Domma wrote: > I want to use Python to script some formulas in my application. The user > should be able to write something like > > A = B * C > > where A,B,C are instances of some wrapper classes. Overloading * is no > problem but I cannot overload the assignment of A. I understand that > this is due to the nature of Python, but is there a trick to work around > this? > All I'm interested in is a clean syntax to script my app. Any ideas are > very welcome.
Are you sure you even need to do that? >>> class C: ... def __init__(self, x): ... self.x = x ... def __mul__(self, other): ... return C(self.x*other.x) ... >>> result = C(2)*C(3) >>> print result <__main__.C instance at 0x402e13ec> >>> result.x 6 -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM, Y!M erikmaxfrancis Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep. -- Fran Lebowitz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
