This works in Python 2.5 but not in Python 2.6.
If you do [0]*5, it gives you [0, 0, 0, 0, 0]. I tried getting this to work with SymPy's Integer class, so that [0]*Integer(5) would return the same, but unfortunately, the sequence multiplication doesn't seem to return NotImplemented properly allowing it to be overridden in __rmul__. Overridding in regular __mul__ of course works fine. From sympy/core/basic.py (modified):
# This works fine
@_sympifyit('other', NotImplemented)
def __mul__(self, other):
if type(other) in (tuple, list) and self.is_Integer:
return int(self)*other
return Mul(self, other)
# This has no affect.
@_sympifyit('other', NotImplemented)
def __rmul__(self, other):
if type(other) in (tuple, list, str) and self.is_Integer:
return other*int(self)
return Mul(other, self)
In other words, with the above, Integer(5)*[0] works, but [0]*Integer(5) raises TypeError: can't multiply sequence by non-int of type 'Integer' just as it does without any changes. See also my branch at github with these changes http://github.com/asmeurer/sympy/tree/list-int-mul.
Another option might be to just have the list.__mul__(self, other) try calling int(other).
SymPy has not yet been ported to Python 3, so I am sorry that I cannot test if it works there.
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