Re: understanding operator overloading

2012-06-01 Thread Chris Rebert
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Josh Benner wrote: > > Is there a good way to trace what's going on under the hood wrt operator > overloading? > > I am trying to understand what is happening in the code and output listed > below. > > Why doesn't __getitem__ in my

understanding operator overloading

2012-06-01 Thread Josh Benner
Is there a good way to trace what's going on under the hood wrt operator overloading? I am trying to understand what is happening in the code and output listed below. Why doesn't __getitem__ in mylist return the same result as the builtin list object? Does it have something to do with

Re: Operator overloading

2008-01-26 Thread Terry Reedy
| > > Sure. Cosines are a monadic operation and the monadic '+' is a NOP, so | > > why shouldn't I define +45 to return cosine of 45, (presuming I needed | > > lots of cosines). I'd even let you define your own operators. Lots of | > > programmers really liked '++' and '--', for examples. One c

Re: Operator overloading

2008-01-26 Thread MRAB
On Jan 25, 8:52 pm, Hexamorph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hexamorph wrote: > >> You mean you want the ability to change for example the + operator > >> for ints to something like calculating the cosine instead of doing > >> addition? > > > Sure. Cosines are a monadic

Re: Operator overloading

2008-01-25 Thread Hexamorph
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hexamorph wrote: >> You mean you want the ability to change for example the + operator >> for ints to something like calculating the cosine instead of doing >> addition? > > Sure. Cosines are a monadic operation and the monadic '+' is a NOP, so > why shouldn't I defin

Re: Operator overloading

2008-01-25 Thread MartinRinehart
Hexamorph wrote: > You mean you want the ability to change for example the + operator > for ints to something like calculating the cosine instead of doing > addition? Sure. Cosines are a monadic operation and the monadic '+' is a NOP, so why shouldn't I define +45 to return cosine of 45, (presum

Re: Operator overloading

2008-01-25 Thread Hexamorph
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> No, there is no way. You would change general interpreter behavior if >> you could set arbitrary operators for predefined types. >> >> Start grumping... > > Thank you, Diez. > > If I ever design a language, please remind me that complete, e

Re: Operator overloading

2008-01-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> No, there is no way. You would change general interpreter behavior if >> you could set arbitrary operators for predefined types. >> >> Start grumping... > > Thank you, Diez. > > If I ever design a language, please remind me that complete,

Re: Operator overloading

2008-01-25 Thread MartinRinehart
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > No, there is no way. You would change general interpreter behavior if > you could set arbitrary operators for predefined types. > > Start grumping... Thank you, Diez. If I ever design a language, please remind me that complete, easy, well-documented access to the worki

Re: Operator overloading

2008-01-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > If it were my choice, the plus sign would do this: > > def itemadd( i1, i2 ): > if ( type(i1) == str ) or ( type(i2) == str ): > return str(i1) + str(i2) > else: > return i1 + i2 > > I'd like to redefine it

Operator overloading

2008-01-25 Thread MartinRinehart
If it were my choice, the plus sign would do this: def itemadd( i1, i2 ): if ( type(i1) == str ) or ( type(i2) == str ): return str(i1) + str(i2) else: return i1 + i2 I'd like to redefine it so it works my way but operator overloading seems strictly confined to clas

Re: operator overloading on built-ins

2007-11-08 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:53:16 -0800, r.grimm wrote: (1).__cmp__(10) > -1 As the dot is an operator like ``+`` or ``/`` you can also add spaces to avoid the ambiguity: In [493]: 1 . __cmp__(10) Out[493]: -1 In [494]: 1 .__cmp__(10) Out[494]: -1 Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- htt

Re: operator overloading on built-ins

2007-11-08 Thread Steven Bethard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (1).__cmp__(10) > -1 Integer object "(1)" followed by method call ".__cmp__(10)" 1.__cmp__(10) > File "", line 1 > 1.__cmp__(10) > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax Floating point number "1." followed by "__cmp__(10)". STeVe -- http://mail.pyt

operator overloading on built-ins

2007-11-08 Thread r . grimm
Hallo, could you explaint me the difference between the two following statements. Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Oct 7 2006, 23:45:05) [GCC 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> (1).__cmp__(10) -1 >>> 1.__cmp__(10)

Re: operator overloading

2007-04-05 Thread Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Apr 4, 4:55 pm, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Ziga Seilnacht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> | This looks like a bug in Python. It works for all the other >> | operators: > [SNIP] >> | >>> i ** 3 >> | 74088 >> | >> |

Re: operator overloading

2007-04-04 Thread Lenard Lindstrom
looping wrote: > Hi, > for the fun I try operator overloading experiences and I didn't > exactly understand how it works. > > Here is my try: >>>> class myint(int): > def __pow__(self, value): > return self.__add__(value) > >>&g

Re: operator overloading

2007-04-04 Thread Terry Reedy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | FWIW: | Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Jan 21 2007, 03:10:25) | [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)] on HOSTNAME_REDACTED | Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. | >>> class MyInt(int): | ... __pow__ = in

Re: operator overloading

2007-04-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Apr 4, 4:55 pm, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Ziga Seilnacht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | This looks like a bug in Python. It works for all the other > | operators: [SNIP] > | >>> i ** 3 > | 74088 > | > | You should submit a bug report to the

Re: operator overloading

2007-04-04 Thread Terry Reedy
"Ziga Seilnacht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | This looks like a bug in Python. It works for all the other | operators: | | >>> class MyInt(int): | ... __sub__ = int.__add__ | ... __mul__ = int.__add__ | ... __div__ = int.__add__ | ... __truediv__ =

Re: operator overloading

2007-04-04 Thread 7stud
On Apr 4, 12:41 pm, "7stud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to Python in a Nutshell(p.102), a name that is a slot can > only be "bound"(i.e. assigned to) inside the class body. Upon closer reading, it actually says that the name "__slots__" has to be bound inside the class body for the sl

Re: operator overloading

2007-04-04 Thread 7stud
On Apr 4, 12:41 pm, "7stud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 4, 3:36 am, "looping" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > for the fun I try operator overloading experiences and I didn't > > exactly understand how it

Re: operator overloading

2007-04-04 Thread 7stud
On Apr 4, 3:36 am, "looping" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > for the fun I try operator overloading experiences and I didn't > exactly understand how it works. > > Here is my try:>>> class myint(int): > > def __pow__(self, value): >

Re: operator overloading

2007-04-04 Thread Ziga Seilnacht
looping wrote: > Hi, > for the fun I try operator overloading experiences and I didn't > exactly understand how it works. > > Here is my try: > >>> class myint(int): > > def __pow__(self, value): > return self.__add__(value) >

operator overloading

2007-04-04 Thread looping
Hi, for the fun I try operator overloading experiences and I didn't exactly understand how it works. Here is my try: >>> class myint(int): def __pow__(self, value): return self.__add__(value) >>> a = myint(3) >>> a ** 3 6 OK, it works. No

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-13 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Terry Reedy wrote: > "Bruno Desthuilliers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Terry Reedy wrote: >>> "Bruno Desthuilliers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The current namespace object, of course. >>> Implementing a namespace as a P

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-13 Thread Piet van Oostrum
> Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (FL) wrote: >FL> Piet van Oostrum wrote: >>> The official Python documentation (language reference manual) talks a lot >>> about variables. So it seems silly to say that Python doesn't have >>> variables. >FL> the language reference mostly uses the term "va

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-12 Thread OKB (not okblacke)
Terry Reedy wrote: > Implementing a namespace as a Python object (ie, dict) is > completely optional and implementation dependent. For CPython, the > local namespace of a function is generally *not* done that way. Sure, but this is all just theoretical talk anyway, right? I would like

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-12 Thread Terry Reedy
"Bruno Desthuilliers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Terry Reedy wrote: >> "Bruno Desthuilliers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The current namespace object, of course. >> >> Implementing a namespace as a Python object (ie, dict)

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-12 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Terry Reedy wrote: > "Bruno Desthuilliers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> The current namespace object, of course. > > Implementing a namespace as a Python object (ie, dict) is completely > optional and implementation dependent. For CPython, the local namespace

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-12 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Georg Brandl wrote: > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >> Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 17:21:55 -0500, Tim Chase wrote: >>> >> With the caveat of the "=" mentioned in the subject-line (being >> different from "==")...I haven't found any way to override >> assignment in the g

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-10 Thread Leif K-Brooks
Paul Rubin wrote: > The symbols on the left side of = signs are called variables even in > Haskell, where they don't "vary" (you can't change the value of a > variable once you have set it). FWIW, that's the original, mathematical meaning of the word 'variable'. They _do_ vary, but only when you

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-10 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Paul Rubin wrote: > The symbols on the left side of = signs are called variables even in > Haskell, where they don't "vary" (you can't change the value of a > variable once you have set it). at the language specification level, the things to the left side of = signs are called "targets" in Pytho

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-10 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Piet van Oostrum wrote: > The official Python documentation (language reference manual) talks a lot > about variables. So it seems silly to say that Python doesn't have > variables. the language reference mostly uses the term "variables" when discussing local variables and instance variables, an

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-10 Thread Paul Rubin
Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The official Python documentation (language reference manual) talks a lot > about variables. So it seems silly to say that Python doesn't have > variables. The symbols on the left side of = signs are called variables even in Haskell, where they don't

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-10 Thread Piet van Oostrum
> Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (SD) wrote: >SD> Despite sloppy talk to the contrary (which I think most of us do from time >SD> to time), Python doesn't have variables. It has names and objects. Names >SD> are just labels -- there is no difference in behavior between the *names* >SD> th

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-10 Thread Paul Rubin
Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Suppose one has the following intention in mind: > > while x = setup(): > if y = pre_process() in ErrorCondition: > break > post_process(y) > else: > NormalTermination() Maybe we need a new itertools function: def forever(func,

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-10 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2006-10-10, Paul Rubin wrote: > "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> or for the perhaps-overly-clever hackers, >> >> for x in iter(lambda: foo() or None, None): >> process(x) > > for x in takewhile(bool, (foo() for _ in repeat(None))): > process(x) > > Meh, both ar

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-10 Thread Paul Rubin
Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> for x in takewhile(foo() for _ in repeat(None)): > ... print x > ... > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in ? > TypeError: takewhile expected 2 arguments, got 1 Yeah, I cancelled and posted a followup for x in takewhile(boo

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-10 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2006-10-10, Paul Rubin wrote: > "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> or for the perhaps-overly-clever hackers, >> >> for x in iter(lambda: foo() or None, None): >> process(x) > > for x in takewhile(foo() for _ in repeat(None)): >process (x) >>> for x in takewhile(foo

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-10 Thread Paul Rubin
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > or for the perhaps-overly-clever hackers, > > for x in iter(lambda: foo() or None, None): > process(x) for x in takewhile(bool, (foo() for _ in repeat(None))): process(x) Meh, both are ugly. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listi

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-10 Thread Paul Rubin
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > or for the perhaps-overly-clever hackers, > > for x in iter(lambda: foo() or None, None): > process(x) for x in takewhile(foo() for _ in repeat(None)): process (x) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-10 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Roman Neuhauser wrote: > People who complain often fail to see how > >x = foo() >while x: >process(x) >x = foo() > >is safer than > >while x = foo(): >process(x) that's spelled: for x in foo(): process(x) in Python, or, if foo() just refuses b

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-10 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2006-10-08 11:44:18 +0100: > That's because assignment isn't an operator - that's why (for example) > > print x = 33 > > would be a syntax error. This is a deliberate design decision about > which, history shows, there is little use complaining. Just to clarify: n

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-10 Thread Theerasak Photha
On 9 Oct 2006 11:27:40 GMT, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I honestly don't see why "variable" would be an inappropiate word to use. > AFAIU, python assignment seems to behave much like lisp and smalltalk > and I never heard that those communities found the word "variable" > inappropia

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-09 Thread Terry Reedy
"Bruno Desthuilliers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The current namespace object, of course. Implementing a namespace as a Python object (ie, dict) is completely optional and implementation dependent. For CPython, the local namespace of a function is generall

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-09 Thread Georg Brandl
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 17:21:55 -0500, Tim Chase wrote: >> > With the caveat of the "=" mentioned in the subject-line (being > different from "==")...I haven't found any way to override > assignment in the general case. Why would

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-09 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 17:21:55 -0500, Tim Chase wrote: > With the caveat of the "=" mentioned in the subject-line (being different from "==")...I haven't found any way to override assignment in the general case. >>> Why would you want to do that? >> For the sa

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-09 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2006-10-08, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 17:21:55 -0500, Tim Chase wrote: > With the caveat of the "=" mentioned in the subject-line (being different from "==")...I haven't found any way to override assignment in the general case. >>> >>> Why w

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-08 Thread SpreadTooThin
Daniel Nogradi wrote: > > Can these operators be overloaded? > > If so. How? > > > > http://www.python.org/doc/ref/numeric-types.html > > HTH, > Daniel Thanks everyone. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-08 Thread Steve Holden
Tim Chase wrote: >>>Can these operators be overloaded? >> >>Yes. > > > With the caveat of the "=" mentioned in the subject-line (being > different from "==")...I haven't found any way to override > assignment in the general case. There might be some oddball way > to do it via property() but A

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-07 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 17:21:55 -0500, Tim Chase wrote: >>> With the caveat of the "=" mentioned in the subject-line (being >>> different from "==")...I haven't found any way to override >>> assignment in the general case. >> >> Why would you want to do that? > > For the same reason one would use p

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-07 Thread Tim Chase
>> With the caveat of the "=" mentioned in the subject-line (being >> different from "==")...I haven't found any way to override >> assignment in the general case. > > Why would you want to do that? For the same reason one would use property() to create getter/setter functions for a particular v

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-07 Thread Sybren Stuvel
Tim Chase enlightened us with: > With the caveat of the "=" mentioned in the subject-line (being > different from "==")...I haven't found any way to override > assignment in the general case. Why would you want to do that? Sybren -- Sybren Stüvel Stüvel IT - http://www.stuvel.eu/ -- http://ma

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-07 Thread Georg Brandl
Tim Chase wrote: >>> Can these operators be overloaded? >> >> Yes. > > With the caveat of the "=" mentioned in the subject-line (being > different from "==")...I haven't found any way to override > assignment in the general case. There might be some oddball way > to do it via property() but A

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-07 Thread Tim Chase
>> Can these operators be overloaded? > > Yes. With the caveat of the "=" mentioned in the subject-line (being different from "==")...I haven't found any way to override assignment in the general case. There might be some oddball way to do it via property() but AFAIK, this only applies to pr

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-07 Thread Daniel Nogradi
> Can these operators be overloaded? > If so. How? > http://www.python.org/doc/ref/numeric-types.html HTH, Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-07 Thread Sybren Stuvel
SpreadTooThin enlightened us with: > Can these operators be overloaded? Yes. > If so. How? Implement __add__, __sub__ etc. in the class that you want to be able to add, subtract, etc. Sybren -- Sybren Stüvel Stüvel IT - http://www.stuvel.eu/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytho

operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-07 Thread SpreadTooThin
Can these operators be overloaded? If so. How? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Problem with operator overloading and inheritance in Python

2006-09-18 Thread Calvin Spealman
do I define new-style classes? > > - Edward > > > Original Message Follows > From: "Calvin Spealman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: "Edward Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Problem with operator over

Re: Problem with operator overloading and inheritance in Python

2006-09-17 Thread Calvin Spealman
On 9/17/06, Edward A. Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Consider the following code: > > import sys > > class FirstClass: > def __init__(self, value): > self.data = value > def __add__(self, value): > return FirstClass(self.data + value) > def display(self): >

Problem with operator overloading and inheritance in Python

2006-09-17 Thread Edward A. Waugh
Consider the following code:   import sys   class FirstClass:    def __init__(self, value):    self.data = "">    def __add__(self, value):    return FirstClass(self.data + value)    def display(self):    print self.data   class SecondClass(FirstClass):    def __add__(self,

RE: Operator Overloading Basics

2006-08-28 Thread Mohit Bhatt
Thanks a lot Fredrik and Tim for your help. Cheers, Mohit -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Operator Overloading Basics

2006-08-28 Thread Tim Chase
> obj1 = c1(1) > > obj1 + 10 # this works just fine > 10 + obj1 # throws exception > Q. What do I have to do to make the following line work? > > 10 + obj1 http://docs.python.org/ref/numeric-types.html You want to read the section on __radd__ (and it's o

Re: Operator Overloading Basics

2006-08-28 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Mohit Bhatt wrote: > Hello, > > I just started out with python( couple of weeks). > > I have a query regarding Operator Overloading > > class c1: > def __init__(self,value): > self.data = value >

Operator Overloading Basics

2006-08-28 Thread Mohit Bhatt
Hello, I just started out with python( couple of weeks). I have a query regarding Operator Overloading   class c1:     def __init__(self,value):     self.data = "">     def __add__ (self,operand2):     self.dat

Re: Operator Overloading

2005-08-01 Thread Calvin Spealman
On 1 Aug 2005 05:12:47 -, Gurpreet Sachdeva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any provision in python which allows me to make my own operators? > > My problem is that I need to combine two dictonaries with their keys and I > don't want to use any of the existing operators lik

Re: Operator Overloading

2005-08-01 Thread Robert Kern
Gurpreet Sachdeva wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there any provision in python which allows me to make my own operators? > > My problem is that I need to combine two dictonaries with their keys and > I don't want to use any of the existing operators like '+','-','*'. > So is there a way I can make '**'

Operator Overloading

2005-08-01 Thread Gurpreet Sachdeva
  Hi, Is there any provision in python which allows me to make my own operators? My problem is that I need to combine two dictonaries with their keys and I don't want to use any of the existing operators like '+','-','*'. So is there a way I can make '**' or '~' as my operators to add two dicto

Re: Newbie question about class operator overloading

2005-02-16 Thread Steven Bethard
Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: Hi Steve I've been playing around with your two suggestions. The Record class is an elegant solution. It doesn't however help in the case where the class has the following general data structure (something I should have stated originally): class.config1 = param

Re: Newbie question about class operator overloading

2005-02-16 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Hi Steve I've been playing around with your two suggestions. The Record class is an elegant solution. It doesn't however help in the case where the class has the following general data structure (something I should have stated originally): class.config1 = param class.config2 = param

Re: Newbie question about class operator overloading

2005-02-15 Thread Steven Bethard
Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: Hi. I'm just starting to use python. I am anxious about how best to set and access items one level down in a data structure if I am using __setitem__ and __getitem__. At the moment I can do for a data structure Data: object.Data = { 'one' : [1, 2, {}, 4],

Re: Newbie question about class operator overloading

2005-02-15 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Anyone out there? Criticism about the objective of my question, not just the execution, gratefully received! Basically, if I have a class This: def __init__(self, x, y): self.x=x self.y=y self.data = {} and then make all my setitem and getitem cal

Newbie question about class operator overloading

2005-02-15 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Hi. I'm just starting to use python. I am anxious about how best to set and access items one level down in a data structure if I am using __setitem__ and __getitem__. At the moment I can do for a data structure Data: object.Data = { 'one' : [1, 2, {}, 4], 'two' : [5, 6,

Re: Operator Overloading

2004-11-29 Thread Bengt Richter
al >> > (release 2.3.3) about operator overloading is true : >> > >> > "For example, if a class defines a method named __getitem__(), and x >> > is an instance of this class, then x[i] is equivalent to >> > x.__getitem__(i)" >> [...] >