On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:52:14 +0200, Xavier Décoret wrote: > I would like to know if there is for python's classes an equivalent of > the operator= that can be overidden. > > Let's say I have > >>> a=A() > and I want to write > >>> a=5 > and I want this to change some internal value of a instead of making a > point to a new object (an int 5) > > In other word, I would like to be able to use a=5 instead of a.set(5) > > Is that possible?
I don't know, because I don't understand what you mean. What is A()? A class or a function? What is a.set()? What does it do? I'm going to make a wild guess as to what you want to do. You want something like Pascal records or C structs, right? py> a = MyCustomShapeClass() py> print a # calls a.__repr__ for a nice printable representation [top = 0, bottom = 1, left = 5, right = 20, kind = "rect"] py> a.kind = "oval" py> a.bottom = 100 py> print a [top = 0, bottom = 100, left = 5, right = 20, kind = "oval"] Is that the sort of thing you are looking for? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
