Can anyone offer a suggestion?

[Guido van Rossum]

"Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com> writes:

> That's it!  My class is invoking __rmul__, coercing the string to an
> instance and doing the math.

Emile, you might want to study operator precendence and execution
order and such.  Weren't you also the one who was surprised that 3+5*4
was 23 instead of 32?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)