I know this may be asking too much of Python, but you never know unless you ask...
So now having a class that can be treated like an int as far as math upon the instance name, and can be treated as in HDL simulators, allowing bitslice and bitselect ops, I was stoked. Also reading back the instance name returns the int, rather than text about the class name and location in memory. But... it would be wonderful if there was a way to assign a value without using any .member notation... if there were a way for me to specify that the reference would never change. For example: >>> myInst = MyClass(0xAA) >>> myInst 170 >>> myInst[0] # <== MyClass can do bit selection 0 >>> myInst = 0x55 # <== gets reassigned >>> myInst[0] # <== this is where it would choke 1 # <== this is the answer I would want Is there a way to lock down myInst so that it still refers to the original object, and is there some special member that will allow me to override the equals operator in this case? Or is that simply blasphemous against everything Python holds sacred? Certainly there is some keyword that I don't know about. Thanks! Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
