How to Overload Operators with Multiple Operands in Python?

You can use multi-operand operator overloading in Python, just like you can overload operators with two operands. For example, if you want to overload the + operator for a class, you can do so as follows –

Example

class Complex(object):
   def __init__(self, real, imag):
      self.real = real
      self.imag = imag
   def __add__(self, other):
      real = self.real + other.real
      imag = self.imag + other.imag
      return Complex(real, imag)
   def display(self):
      print(str(self.real) + " + " + str(self.imag) + "i")

      a = Complex(10, 5)
      b = Complex(5, 10)
      c = Complex(2, 2)
      d = a + b + c
     d.display()

Output

This will produce the following output –

17 + 17i

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