Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Python
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Operator Overloading

Program gif illustrates operator overloading in Python. Operator overloading   allows the programmer to use the built-in operators for user-defined types.

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Program: Complex class __add__, __sub__ and __mul__ methods.

To overload the built-in +, - and * operators so that they may be used with Complex operands, we define the methods called __add__, __sub__ and __mul__ (respectively). Given Complex variables c, d and e, the expression 

c + d * e
is equivalent to 
Complex.__add__(c, Complex.__mul__(d, e))

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