Russ enlightened us with: > Does it ever make sense to derive a class from a basic type such as > float or int? Suppose, for example, that I want to create a class > for physical scalars with units.
That makes sense. > I thought about deriving from float, then adding the units. I played > around with it a bit, but it doesn't seem to work very well. Am I > missing something here? Thanks. Yeah, you forgot to include a magical 'make the reader psychic' text ;-) An explanation of what you did and what went wrong would be useful in answering your question. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list