Polymorphism using constructors

[Diez B. Roggisch]

K Viltersten schrieb:
> I'm writing a class for rational numbers
> and besides the most obvious constructor
> 
>  def __init__ (self, nomin, denom):
> 
> i also wish to have two supporting ones
> 
>  def __init__ (self, integ):
>    self.__init__ (integ, 1)
>  def __init__ (self):
>    self.__init__ (0, 1)
> 
> but for some reason (not known to me at
> this point) i get errors. My suspicion is that it's a syntax issue.
> 
> Suggestions?

"errors" is not much of an error-description. That's what stacktraces 
are for.

Apart from that, you won't succeed with the above. Python has no 
signature-based polymorphism. Instead, you use default arguments, like this:


def __init__(nomin=0, denom=1):
     ...

That should suffice.

Diez