Russ wrote: > Does it ever make sense to derive a class from a basic type such as > float or int? Suppose, for example, that I want to create a class for > physical scalars with units. I thought about deriving from float, then > adding the units. I played around with it a bit, but it doesn't seem to > work very well. Am I missing something here? Thanks.
you could look at how sciPy does it: http://starship.python.net/~hinsen/ScientificPython/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list