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class X:

... def __mul__(self, other): ... return numpy.random.random() * other ... def __rmul__(self, other): ... return other * numpy.random.random()

Thanks for that Friedrich! I had forgotten about __mul__, __rmul__, __float__ et al. I think that using a class method instead of a function and overriding those __*__ methods is the cleaner way to do the task I need. Cheers, Frank Horowitz frank@horow.net