Overloading the ">>" operator in Python 2.2.1

[Jp Calderone]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:22:07PM +1200, Andy Elvey wrote:
> Hi all .
>    I'm using Python 2.2.1 under Win98.  I'm doing some experimenting with
> parsing, and as part of that, I'm trying to overload the right-shift
> operator (>>) so that I can use it as follows (testing against a sequence
> that I read in) -
>   a >> b   would mean  "a is followed by b" .
>    So,  you could have a function like seqtest("string_to_test" ,
> "foo">>"bar" ) , and that function would return true or false, depending on
> whether foo was followed by bar.
>  (  I know it's possible to use regexes for this,  but being able to create
> a sequence-testing operator like this would be useful .)
>     Many thanks in advance ......
> 

>>> class Foo:
...   def __rshift__(self, other):
...     print 'rshift'
...   def __lshift__(self, other):
...     print 'lshift'
...
>>> f = Foo()
>>> f >> 'hello'
rshift
>>> f << 'world'
lshift


Also:

>>> dir(42)
['__abs__', '__add__', '__and__', '__class__', '__cmp__', '__coerce__',
'__delattr__', '__div__', '__divmod__', '__doc__', '__float__',
'__floordiv__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__hex__', '__init__',
'__int__', '__invert__', '__long__', '__lshift__', '__mod__', '__mul__',
'__neg__', '__new__', '__nonzero__', '__oct__', '__or__', '__pos__',
'__pow__', '__radd__', '__rand__', '__rdiv__', '__rdivmod__', '__reduce__',
'__repr__', '__rfloordiv__', '__rlshift__', '__rmod__', '__rmul__',
'__ror__', '__rpow__', '__rrshift__', '__rshift__', '__rsub__',
'__rtruediv__', '__rxor__', '__setattr__', '__str__', '__sub__',
'__truediv__', '__xor__']

  Jp

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