Which style is preferable?

[Pete Shinners]

Antoon Pardon wrote:
> For the sake of this question I'm writing a vector class. So
> I have code something like the following

I find all the type checking a touch ugly, but perhaps I've been using 
Python for too long. I would approach it like this.


class Vector:
     def __init__(self, iterable):
         self.val = map(float, iterable)

     def __add__(self, term):
         values = map(operator.add, self.val, term)
         return Vector(values)

     def __iter__(self):
         return self.val

This will still give you a TypeError if non-float-compatible values are 
passed. You will still get a TypeError if the add function gets an 
object/Vector with odd types or the wrong size. One benefit, besides 
being ridiculously simple, is it accepts integers as arguments, and you 
can do operations with vectors against lists and tuples with the same 
number of elements.

     myvec += 1, 0, 1