[Python-Dev] Inplace multiply

[Paul Dubois]

My "masked array" class MA has a problem that I don't know how to solve. The
inplace multiply function

    def __imul__ (self, other)

is not getting called while my other input operations do work. The scenario
is

x = MA.array(...)

x *= c

If c is an int, this works correctly, calling MA.__imul__. Otherwise, I get
a message from the Python runtime saying it can't multiply a sequence by a
non-int. But change MA to Numeric, it works.

Numeric is an extension type and MA is a (new style) class. MA defines
__len__ as well as all the math operators.