can I overload operators like "=>", "->" or something like that?

[Ben Finney]

alex23 <wuwei23 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Apr 20, 5:54 am, Jacob MacDonald <jaccar... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:28:50 PM UTC-7, dmitrey wrote:
> > > can I somehow overload operators like "=>", "->" or something like
> > > that?
> > I don't believe that you could overload those particular operators,
> > since to my knowledge they do not exist in Python to begin with.

There is no ‘=>’ operator, and no ‘->’ operator, in Python
<URL:http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#operators>.
>
> It all depends on if the operators use special methods on objects:
> http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#special-method-names
>
> You can overload => via object.__le__, for example.

No, ‘<=’ is the less-than-or-equal operator. There is no ‘=>’ operator
in Python.

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