>> With the caveat of the "=" mentioned in the subject-line (being >> different from "==")...I haven't found any way to override >> assignment in the general case. > > Why would you want to do that?
For the same reason one would use property() to create getter/setter functions for a particular variable--to intercept attempts to set a variable. I'm not sure there's an elegant way to do it other than creating a custom container object with a getter/setter using property(). My purpose was just to note that the "=" assignment operator is distinct from the remainder of the operators that you correctly identified can be overridden with their associated __[operator]__ method. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
