Learn Special Methods by Building a Vector Space - Step 61

Python
1

Tell us what’s happening:

it keeps telling me
“The ne method should return False if each attribute of the current instance is equal to the same attribute of other and True otherwise.”

Your code so far

class R2Vector:
    def __init__(self, *, x, y):
        self.x = x
        self.y = y

    def norm(self):
        return sum(val**2 for val in vars(self).values())**0.5

    def __str__(self):
        return str(tuple(getattr(self, i) for i in vars(self)))

    def __repr__(self):
        arg_list = [f'{key}={val}' for key, val in vars(self).items()]
        args = ', '.join(arg_list)
        return f'{self.__class__.__name__}({args})'

    def __add__(self, other):
        if type(self) != type(other):
            return NotImplemented
        kwargs = {i: getattr(self, i) + getattr(other, i) for i in vars(self)}
        return self.__class__(**kwargs)

    def __sub__(self, other):
        if type(self) != type(other):
            return NotImplemented
        kwargs = {i: getattr(self, i) - getattr(other, i) for i in vars(self)}
        return self.__class__(**kwargs)

    def __mul__(self, other):
        if type(other) in (int, float):
            kwargs = {i: getattr(self, i) * other for i in vars(self)}
            return self.__class__(**kwargs)        
        elif type(self) == type(other):
            args = [getattr(self, i) * getattr(other, i) for i in vars(self)]
            return sum(args)            
        return NotImplemented

# User Editable Region

    def __eq__(self, other):
        if type(self) != type(other):
            return NotImplemented
        return all(getattr(self, i) == getattr(other, i) for i in vars(self))
    
    def __ne__(self, other):
        return not self == other
            


# User Editable Region

        super().__init__(x=x, y=y)
        self.z = z

v1 = R2Vector(x=2, y=3)
v2 = R2Vector(x=0.5, y=1.25)
print(f'v1 = {v1}')
print(f'v2 = {v2}')
v3 = v1 + v2
print(f'v1 + v2 = {v3}')
v4 = v1 - v2
print(f'v1 - v2 = {v4}')
v5 = v1 * v2
print(f'v1 * v2 = {v5}')

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Challenge Information:

Learn Special Methods by Building a Vector Space - Step 61

2

what happened to R3Vector?

3

Think about what does ne really means: isn’t it should return True if any attribute is different between the two objects and False only if all attributes are exactly the same ?

Right now, you’re relying on not self == other which seems logical, what if they are objects and some attributes are not equal? shouldn’t you be iterating over attributes and check for their equality?

4

that approach is fine, __eq__ and __ne__ are expected to give always the opposite resul

what’s not fine is the missing code in the editor that was present at the beginning of the step