On 01/24/2015 03:22 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Brian Gladman <no...@nowhere.net> wrote:
But I am not clear on how to delegate from my new class to the existing
Fraction class.  This is what I have:

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class RF(Fraction):

   def __new__(self, x, y):
     super().__new__(self, x, y)

   def is_integer(self):
     return self.numerator % self.denominator == 0

   def __getattr__(self, attr):
     return getattr(self, attr)
If you just drop everything but your new method, it should work just fine.

class RF(Fraction):
     def is_integer(self):
        return self.numerator % self.denominator == 0

However, this doesn't ensure that operations on RFs will return more
RFs - they'll often return Fractions instead. There's no easy fix for
that, sorry.

ChrisA

You can always "monkey-path" the Fraction class on the fly to add a new method to it. I think most would consider this a bad idea, but it does work.
Try this:

>>> from fractions import Fraction
>>> def is_integer(self):
...     return self.numerator % self.denominator == 0
...
>>> Fraction.is_integer = is_integer # Monkey-patch Fraction
>>>
>>> Fraction(1,2).is_integer()
False
>>> Fraction(2,1).is_integer()
True


Gary Herron


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