gene tani wrote: > 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/
ScientificPython != SciPy ScientificPython's unit package does not subclass from floats since it tries to be agnostic about the kind of value you can assign a unit to. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list