BiDi wrote: > I have been trying to subclass complex, but I am not able to get the > right-hand arithmetic operators working. > > As shown below, if an object of my subclass 'xcomplex' is added on the > right of a 'comlex' object, the type returned is 'complex', not > 'xcomplex'. > > I've tried subclassing float and it works fine (don't even need to > define __coerce__ in that case) > > Is this a bug, or am I missing something?
A minimal example is >>> class Complex(complex): ... def __radd__(self, other): print "radd" ... >>> 1j + Complex() 1j versus >>> class Int(int): ... def __radd__(self, other): print "radd" ... >>> 1 + Int() radd I think the complex subclass should behave like the int subclass. To get an authoritative answer you should file a bug report. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
