Newbie: Classes

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 12:08:39AM -0500, Sean Ross wrote:
> 
> "Michael Loomington" <mloomington at yahoo.ca> wrote in message
> news:bni80i$11dkvg$1 at ID-198839.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > I tried doing the following but it doesn't work:
> >
> > def __mul__(self, m)
> >     self.r= self.r * m
> >     self.i= self.i * m
> >     return Complex(self.r, self.i)
> >
> 
> Hi. Python allows you to define behaviour for both left and right
> multiplication (instance*2 or 2*instance). See if this helps:
> 
> def __mul__(self, m):
>     self.r *= m
>     self.i *= m
>     return Complex(self.r, self.i)

Uh, I don't think you want to mutate this instance...

-Andrew.