More on Classes

In this section you will learn about operator overloading. That is, the ability to use operators such as "+" with objects that you create.

Readings from the book The Practice of Computing Using Python.

Chapter 12: More on Classes

Videos

1. Overloading Operators (Video I, Video II, Video III)

Example code to overload the "+" operator for MyClass

class MyClass (object):
    def __add__ (self, operand2):
        suite-of-statements  # calculate result 
        # call constructor so returned object is of class type (closure)
        return MyClass(result) 

Inheritance (Video I, Video II)

Assignments

1. Chapter 12 Exercises on Codio
2. Lab11 (do pre-lab first on D2L)