Introducing Python to others

[Paddy O'Loughlin]

Thanks for all your replies.
A lot of very strong answers :)

2009/3/26 Mensanator <mensanator at aol.com>:
> What would you have to do to make this work?
>
>>>> x+x+x      # expecting [3,6]
> [2, 4, 1, 2]

What's happening is that the call to map() is returning a list object.
So after it calculates the first "x+x", you are left with the equivalent of:
[6, 6] + x
Because the list object is on the left, it's __add__() function is
called, which appends x to [6,6].

Instead, convert the list returned by map to a Vector before returning
it. Like so:
>>> class Vector(list):
...     def __add__(self, other):
...             return Vector(map(add, self, other))
...
>>> x = Vector([3,3])
>>> x+x+x
[9, 9]
>>>


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