Steven D'Aprano <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> writes:
> I have a subclass of int where I want all the standard arithmetic
> operators to return my subclass, but with no other differences:
>
> class MyInt(int):
> def __add__(self, other):
> return self.__class__(super(MyInt, self).__add__(other))
> # and so on for __mul__, __sub__, etc.
>
>
> My quick-and-dirty count of the __magic__ methods that need to be over-
> ridden comes to about 30. That's a fair chunk of unexciting boilerplate.
>
> Is there a trick or Pythonic idiom to make arithmetic operations on a
> class return the same type, without having to manually specify each
> method? I'm using Python 2.5, so anything related to ABCs are not an
> option.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
I do this:
binops = ['add', 'sub', 'mul', 'div', 'radd', 'rsub'] # etc
unops = ['neg', 'abs', invert'] # etc
binop_meth = """
def __%s__(self, other):
return type(self)(int.__%s__(self, other))
"""
unop_meth = """
def __%s__(self):
return type(self)(int.__%s__(self))
"""
class MyInt(int):
for op in binops:
exec binop_meth % (op, op)
for op in unops:
exec unop_meth % (op, op)
del op
HTH
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Arnaud
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