6.5 Operator Overloading
Operator overloading allows users to define their own behavior for the standard Python operators in the context of a user-defined class. This means that developers can create more intuitive code which can be more easily read and understood by others. It can make code more elegant and less verbose, and can also make it easier to understand the intent of the code.
By defining special methods in the class, Python can call these methods whenever it encounters the relevant operator. This gives users more control over how their code behaves, and can lead to more efficient and effective programming.
Here's a simple example:
In the example above, we define a Point class that represents a point in 2D space. The __add__ method is a special method that we defined to overload the + operator. So, when we try to add two Point objects with +, Python will call the __add__ method, which adds the respective x and y coordinates of the points.
This is just a basic example...