On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:38 PM, alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 20, 5:54 am, Jacob MacDonald <jaccar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:28:50 PM UTC-7, dmitrey wrote:
>>> > can I somehow overload operators like "=>", "->" or something like
>>> > that?
>>
>>> I don't believe that you could overload those particular operators,
>>> since to my knowledge they do not exist in Python to begin with.
>>
>> It all depends on if the operators use special methods on objects:
>> http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#special-method-names
>>
>> You can overload => via object.__le__, for example.
>
> Yes, but it will be a comparison operator, and to an extent, will be
> assumed to function as one. I don't recommend abusing comparisons for
> other operations - you'll confuse people no end.
>
> ChrisA
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Actually, the >= operator can't be spelled => anyway:
>>> 3=>4
File "<stdin>", line 1
3=>4
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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