is it possible to overload operator "^"?

[dmitrey]

hi all,
is it possible to overload operator "^"? (AFAIK __pow__ overloads **
instead of ^)
Thank you in advance, D.

 

[Gary Herron]

hi all,
is it possible to overload operator "^"? (AFAIK __pow__ overloads **
instead of ^)
Thank you in advance, D.

The ^ operator is not an exponentiation, but rather the xor operator.
Thus you can override it with the __xor__ method.

Beware, if you are thinking of ^ as an exponentiation like operator, the
operator precedence will seem wrong.

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

hi all,
is it possible to overload operator "^"? (AFAIK __pow__ overloads **
instead of ^)
Thank you in advance, D.

Did you read the link I gave you for your last question?

It shows __xor__ as special method.

Diez

 

[dmitrey]

the operator precedence will seem wrong
So, are there any ways to change operator precedence (for my class)?

To Diez:
yes, but I haven't paid attention to xor. BTW the url is currently
unavailable (Network Timeout. The server at docs.python.org is taking
too long to respond.).

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

So, are there any ways to change operator precedence (for my class)?

No. Those are built-in.

Diez

 

[Aahz]

To Diez:
yes, but I haven't paid attention to xor. BTW the url is currently
unavailable (Network Timeout. The server at docs.python.org is taking
too long to respond.).

www.python.org is currently having hardware problems
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