classes question!

[Lei Chen]

Hello!

What is the error message?  I can only guess that the error is coming
from attempts to add a number to an array returned by
RandomArray.random(shape=[])...


Karthikesh Raju <karthik at james.hut.fi> wrote in message news:<2dfzv6y2g4.fsf at synapse.hut.fi>...
> Hi,
> 
> i just started to write a class, when i was struck:
> 
> i did something like:
> 
> 
> import Numeric
> import RandomArray
> 
> class source:
>       def __init__(self, k=1,n=1,type='uniform'):
>               self.k = k
>               self.n = n
>               self.type = type
>               if type == 'uniform':
>                     self.data = RandomArray.random([K,N])
>       
> Now i want to do __add__ overloading and the function should return an
> another source
> 
> i did:
> 
> def__add__(self, other):
>      return source(self.data + other)
> 
> i keep getting errors when i try x+5; x is an object of type source. 
> i want to be able to implement 
> 
> x+5
> x+y (x,y are of type sources)
> 
> and other non source types should be converted to source types.
> 
> Any help is great,
> 
> thankx in advance,
> karthik
> 
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