[Pythonmac-SIG] [ann] appscript 0.4.0 released

Chris Ryland cpr at emsoftware.com
Fri Feb 13 10:55:56 EST 2004


On Friday, February 13, 2004, at 09:51 AM, has wrote:

> Only thing still bugging me is that Python doesn't have magic methods 
> for overridding 'and', 'or' and 'not' operators directly, as writing 
> test expressions is clumsy without it. (Do you think we should submit 
> a PEP for this?)

Isn't the classical solution to define your datatypes such that 
and/or/not/etc. are re-mapped as appropriate? That's what some of the 
relational bindings packages (and some symbolic logic packages) do.

Cheers!
--Chris Ryland / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com




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