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Python function overloading
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I am trying to build a complex number calculator in python. The number will be represented by a class with two fields. The first constructor I want to use looks like this:
def __init__(self,real,imag):
self.real = real
self.imag = imag
but i would like to use another, where the only parameter will be a string representing the whole number:
def __init__(self,string_number):
How to implement the overload that allows to use different number of parameters? I am more used to C++, where such thing was easy.
Thanks a lot!
EDIT:
Question marked as duplicate: I did not find any answer regarding different number of parameters. The error I get when trying to build a new instance of the class is about to few arguments.
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Is there any way I can over write the sum() method to act differently on a list?
I expected I would be able to find a dunder method that would allow me to define my own implementation, but I couldn't.
That's how I'd imagine the implementation
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Obviously this breaks as there is no dunder method __sum__ but I am somewhat surprised that there is no such a way to do that using dunder methods as sum is a quite common operation on iterables.
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I am using Python 3.5 and wish to do something like this
I have created a class which has variables Bitcoin, Monero , 'Etherum' ,etc with various integer values ,I wish to extract them
var1="Bitcoin"
value=classobj.var1 // there is a class which has a variable called Bitcoin and its value is 10 I wish to get its value using classobject.Bitcoin but the variable called var is Dynamic
print (value)
How do I achieve the same ?
EDIT
I know it is possible using switch statement but I am looking for other ways
This is almost always a bad idea—and you really should explain why your design looks like this, because it's probably a bad design.
But "almost always" isn't "always", so Python has a way to do this:
getattr(classobj, var)
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