Newbie: Classes

[Sean Ross]

"Andrew Bennetts" <andrew-pythonlist at puzzling.org> wrote in message
news:mailman.125.1067232717.702.python-list at python.org...
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 12:08:39AM -0500, Sean Ross wrote:
> >
> > "Michael Loomington" <mloomington at yahoo.ca> wrote in message
> > news:bni80i$11dkvg$1 at ID-198839.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > > I tried doing the following but it doesn't work:
> > >
> > > def __mul__(self, m)
> > >     self.r= self.r * m
> > >     self.i= self.i * m
> > >     return Complex(self.r, self.i)
> > >
> >
> > Hi. Python allows you to define behaviour for both left and right
> > multiplication (instance*2 or 2*instance). See if this helps:
> >
> > def __mul__(self, m):
> >     self.r *= m
> >     self.i *= m
> >     return Complex(self.r, self.i)
>
> Uh, I don't think you want to mutate this instance...
>
> -Andrew.
>
>

I suppose not. I just went from what the OP already had.