best way to do some simple tasks

[Michael Hudson]

Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> writes:

> Jp Calderone <exarkun at intarweb.us> writes:
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:31:59PM -0800, Erik Lechak wrote:
> > > 3) What is the best way to do this?
> > > 
> > >    a=[1,2,3]
> > >    b=[1,1,1]
> > >    
> > >    how do I get c=a+b (c=[2,3,4])?
> > > 
> >      import operator
> >      c = map(operator.add, a, b)
> 
> You can save the import with a bit of extra ugliness:
> 
>         c = map(int.__add__, a, b)

But then you lose polymorphism:

>>> int.__add__(1.0, 2.0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: descriptor '__add__' requires a 'int' object but received a 'float'

Cheers,
M.

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