Automatically generating arithmetic operations for a subclass

Arnaud Delobelle arnodel at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 14 06:20:52 EDT 2009


Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel at googlemail.com> writes:

> binops = ['add', 'sub', 'mul', 'div', 'radd', 'rsub'] # etc
> unops = ['neg', 'abs', invert'] # etc

Oops.  There's a missing quote above. It should have been, of course:

unops = ['neg', 'abs', 'invert'] # etc

>  
> binop_meth = """
> def __%s__(self, other):
>     return type(self)(int.__%s__(self, other))
> """
>
> unop_meth = """
> def __%s__(self):
>     return type(self)(int.__%s__(self))
> """
>
> class MyInt(int):
>       for op in binops:
>           exec binop_meth % (op, op)
>       for op in unops:
>           exec unop_meth % (op, op)
>       del op
>
> HTH



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