Extending: overloading operators (e.g. for a vector class)

[Chris Liechti]

Greg Ewing <look at replyto.address.invalid> wrote in
news:3CED82D0.EF5E0C67 at replyto.address.invalid: 
> Chris Liechti wrote:
>> 
>> can you give me a hint where such thing as the NEW_STYLE_NUMBER flags
>> are documented?
> 
> I don't know. It might not be documented anywhere yet --
> this is all fairly new stuff.
> 
> By the way, there's one difference I should perhaps have
> mentioned between the Python and C versions of operator
> overloading -- in C there are no separate "reversed"
> versions of the operator methods. For example, if
> you do x*y and x doesn't have an nb_multiply method,
> then y.nb_multiply(x, y) is done.
> 
> So, you have to be prepared for the second operand
> being "self" instead of the first one, if you see
> what I mean.

yes thanks, i hand a look at the sketch sources where this is used in that 
way. my extension does work now like expected (yipee).

chris


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