[Python-Dev] Inplace multiply

[Michael Hudson]

"Paul Dubois" <paul@pfdubois.com> writes:

> 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.

What version of Python?  This smells like a bug that has been
(thought) fixed.

Cheers,
M.

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