On Mar 26, 11:42 am, "andrew cooke" <and...@acooke.org> wrote: > David C. Ullrich wrote: > > In article <mailman.2701.1238060157.11746.python-l...@python.org>, > > "Paddy O'Loughlin" <patrick.olough...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Here's my favorite thing about Python (you'd of course > > remark that it's just a toy example, doing everything > > in as dumb but easily understood way as possible): > > > x=[1,2] > > > print x+x > > > class Vector(): > > def __init__(self, data): > > self.data = data > > def __repr__(self): > > return repr(self.data) > > def __add__(self, other): > > return Vector([self.data[0]+other.data[0], > > self.data[1]+other.data[1]]) > > > x = Vector([1,2]) > > > print x+x > > that's cute, but if you show them 2.6 or 3 it's even cuter: > > >>> from operator import add > >>> class Vector(list): > > ... def __add__(self, other): > ... return map(add, self, other) > ...>>> x = Vector([1,2]) > >>> x+x > > [2, 4] > > andrew
Mind if I ask a question? In DU's code, both operands have to be instances of the Vector class? >>> x = Vector([1,2]) >>> x+x [2, 4] >>> x+[3,3] Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#60>", line 1, in <module> x+[3,3] File "<pyshell#55>", line 7, in __add__ return SV([self.data[0]+other.data[0],self.data[1]+other.data[1]]) AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'data' Whereas with your version, "other" just has to be an iterable. >>> x = Vector([1,2]) >>> x+x [2, 4] >>> x+[3,3] [4, 5] >>> x+(9,9) [10, 11] >>> x+{3:4,4:9} [4, 6] Although it does require the same number of elements (because that's required by map and could be changed if necessary). >>> x+[3,3,3] Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#71>", line 1, in <module> x+[3,3,3] File "<pyshell#62>", line 3, in __add__ return map(add,self,other) TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'int' What would you have to do to make this work? >>> x+x+x # expecting [3,6] [2, 4, 1, 2] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list