[Tutor] question about operator overloading

[Joel Goldstick]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
>>
>> --
>> Alan G
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>
> if spss files are text (not binary) why not:
>
oops forgot the dots.

> 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
>
>
>
> --
> Joel Goldstick



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Joel Goldstick