[Tutor] question about operator overloading

[Joel Goldstick]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On 05/03/12 21:25, Dave Angel wrote:
>
>> It's not clear what __add__() should mean for physical files.
>
>
> My guess would be similar to the cat operator in Unix:
>
> $ cat file1, file2 > file3
>
> is equivalent to
>
> file3 = file1 + file2
>
> But of course, thats just my interpretation of file addition...
>
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if spss files are text (not binary) why not:

f1 = open("f1")read()
f2 = open("f2")read()

outfile = open("outfile", "w")
outfile.write(f1 + f2)
outfile.close()

You could put this in a function and pass all infiles as *filenames,
then loop to read each file and output result



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Joel Goldstick