Overloaded Operators allowed???

[Jeff]

Well yes, that is true, but say I wanted to overload "/" to operate on a
class such as "cookies".  Can this be done?

jy

Bjorn Pettersen <bjorn at roguewave.com> wrote in message
news:3963AADB.25A6776E at roguewave.com...
> Jeff wrote:
> >
> > Can you overload operators as you can in other languages?  For example,
can
> > I make "&" give the address of something as in C++?  Or can I only
overload
> > things like the cmp operator?  i.e. I want to say &string and get the
> > address of string.
>
> Since "&string" is illegal syntactically in Python it wouldn't make
> sense to let you overload on it.  It would be like saying "I want to
> overload @ in C++ so I can use it to append lists, like list1 @
> list2..."
>
> Besides, you really don't want the address of the string (trust me
> <wink>).
>
> -- bjorn
>