对于您示例中的特定行为(A*3 给出了A 中数据的三个串联副本),您希望实现__mul__() 运算符。
例如,这些是等价的:
>>> a = [1,2,3]
>>> a*3
[1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3]
>>> a.__mul__(3)
[1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3]
>>>
更一般地说,如果你想实现一个序列类型,你必须实现所有的operations defined for sequence types。你必须定义 -
-
A[3] 是什么意思(__getitem__(),__setitem__())
-
A[1:10] 是什么意思 (__getslice__())
-
for item in A: 是什么意思 (__iter__())
等等。
这是lists 上定义的方法的完整列表:
>>> pprint.pprint(dict(list.__dict__))
{'__add__': <slot wrapper '__add__' of 'list' objects>,
'__contains__': <slot wrapper '__contains__' of 'list' objects>,
'__delitem__': <slot wrapper '__delitem__' of 'list' objects>,
'__delslice__': <slot wrapper '__delslice__' of 'list' objects>,
'__doc__': "list() -> new empty list\nlist(iterable) -> new list initialized from iterable's items",
'__eq__': <slot wrapper '__eq__' of 'list' objects>,
'__ge__': <slot wrapper '__ge__' of 'list' objects>,
'__getattribute__': <slot wrapper '__getattribute__' of 'list' objects>,
'__getitem__': <method '__getitem__' of 'list' objects>,
'__getslice__': <slot wrapper '__getslice__' of 'list' objects>,
'__gt__': <slot wrapper '__gt__' of 'list' objects>,
'__hash__': None,
'__iadd__': <slot wrapper '__iadd__' of 'list' objects>,
'__imul__': <slot wrapper '__imul__' of 'list' objects>,
'__init__': <slot wrapper '__init__' of 'list' objects>,
'__iter__': <slot wrapper '__iter__' of 'list' objects>,
'__le__': <slot wrapper '__le__' of 'list' objects>,
'__len__': <slot wrapper '__len__' of 'list' objects>,
'__lt__': <slot wrapper '__lt__' of 'list' objects>,
'__mul__': <slot wrapper '__mul__' of 'list' objects>,
'__ne__': <slot wrapper '__ne__' of 'list' objects>,
'__new__': <built-in method __new__ of type object at 0x1E1DACA8>,
'__repr__': <slot wrapper '__repr__' of 'list' objects>,
'__reversed__': <method '__reversed__' of 'list' objects>,
'__rmul__': <slot wrapper '__rmul__' of 'list' objects>,
'__setitem__': <slot wrapper '__setitem__' of 'list' objects>,
'__setslice__': <slot wrapper '__setslice__' of 'list' objects>,
'__sizeof__': <method '__sizeof__' of 'list' objects>,
'append': <method 'append' of 'list' objects>,
'count': <method 'count' of 'list' objects>,
'extend': <method 'extend' of 'list' objects>,
'index': <method 'index' of 'list' objects>,
'insert': <method 'insert' of 'list' objects>,
'pop': <method 'pop' of 'list' objects>,
'remove': <method 'remove' of 'list' objects>,
'reverse': <method 'reverse' of 'list' objects>,
'sort': <method 'sort' of 'list' objects>}