Extention to the integer class.

[Anthony J Wilkinson]

Gregoire Welraeds wrote:

> class Int:

[...]

> But It fails when i use i as an index in a list ex: list[i]
> I could create a get method :
>         def get(self):
>                 return self.__val
> but it is very poor since each time i is a index, i have to write i.get().
> ex: list[i.get]


You could also create a __int__ method:
        def __int__(self):
            return self.__val

which would be used as: list[int(i)]

Alternatively you could use a __call__ method:
        def __call__(self):
            return self.__val

which would be used as: list[i()]

Java has similar problems with a mix of 'primitive' types (ints, chars,
doubles, etc) and instance types. It makes a lot of java very ugly - I
recently had to write:

cost = Integer.valueOf(costString.trim()).intValue();

which is equivalent to the python:

cost = int(costString)

So it seems to me that python handles these things a little better than
Java does.

Anthony