[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Coercion problems solved?

[Konrad Hinsen]

> Then I remembered that Python is not an assembler with structs but is
> an object-oriented language. A few minutes yielded:
> 
>     import UserArray
>     class array32(UserArray.UserArray):
>         def __init__(self, sequence): 
>             UserArray.UserArray.__init__(self, sequence, typecode='f')
>         def __coerce__(self,other): 
>             return (self, UserArray.UserArray(other, typecode='f'))

This sounds like a very good approach. Maybe we should even put
something like this into the standard distribution, if only as
an example for specializing arrays.

Konrad.
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