+= overloading?

[Roman Suzi]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Neil Macneale wrote:

>I am creating a colored stringbuffer class, and I want to append words to
>the buffer with the '+=' operator.  Ex:
>
>>>>csb = CSB("INIT STRING")
>>>>csb += "Hello"
>>>>print csb
>INIT STRINGHello
>
>would be the desired effect.  I can't seem to find anything in the lib
>docs about overloading that operator though.  Am I looking in the wrong
>place?  It is also important that a new object is NOT created every time
>the operator is used, because that would be a waste.


class CSB:
  def __iadd__(self, x):
    self._string += x

>Suggestions?  Thanks for any tips!
>
>Neil Macneale
>
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Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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