Message111833
in order to make overrides simpler, and more obvious to average developers, it would be very useful to automatically call the forward operations (e.g. __mul__) when the reverse operations (e.g. __rmul__) are NotImplemented.
i spent quite a bit of time trying to discover why x*3 worked (where x is a class that i created with a __mul__ method); whereas 3*x wouldn't. this feature would really help since in most applications the same behavior is expected from forward and reverse operations.
for now, i am content with doing this manually, but it would be nice if it were automated. all of my reverse operations just do:
def __rmul__( self , other ):
return self.__mul__( other )
where i manually check the type of other in the forward operation, and then handle it appropriately.
thanks for considering this.
best wishes,
mike |
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2010-07-28 17:56:57 | Michael.Gilbert | set | recipients:
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2010-07-28 17:56:56 | Michael.Gilbert | set | messageid: <1280339816.95.0.28348031653.issue9401@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2010-07-28 17:56:54 | Michael.Gilbert | link | issue9401 messages |
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