Overriding iadd for dictionary like objects

[Xavier Ho]

I haven't tested it, but did you encounter a problem defining __iadd__ in
the class definition?
See:
http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#object.__iadd__

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Ching-Yun "Xavier" Ho, Technical Artist

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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2009-08-26 17:16 PM, RunThePun wrote:
>
>> I'd like to build a database wrapper using DictMixin and allow items
>> to be appended by my own code. The problem is += is always understood
>> as setitem and getitem plainly.
>>
>> d = MyDict()
>> d['a'] = 1
>>
>> # this is the problem code that's I'd like to override. It's always
>> setitem('a', getitem('a') + 3)
>> d['a'] += 3
>> # i wanted to do something like my own 'appenditem' function which for
>> example could be useful if getitem is an expensive operation which can
>> be avoided.
>>
>> I hope that was clear enough of a request, it's really late at night
>> here...
>>
>
> I'm sorry, this is just part of the syntax of Python. You cannot override
> it.
>
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