possibly a dumb question

[Huaiyu Zhu]

Adonis <deltapigz at telocity.com> wrote:
>sure:
>
>class foo:
>    def __init__(self, value):
>        return value
>x = foo(0)
>print x ;yeilds 0
>
>i know the code provided is wrong, but its the general idea.
>

Is this what you want?

>>> class foo:
...     def __init__(self, value):
...         self.value = value
...     def __call__(self):
...         return self.value
... 
>>> x = foo(0)
>>> print x()+3
3

If you only want string representations instead of the original value
object, you can use __str__ as others have pointed out.

Huaiyu