Adding Values From Tuples of Same Length

Question

In a graphical program I\'m writing using pygame I use a tuple representing a coordinate like this: (50, 50).

Sometimes, I call a function which returns another tupl

Answer 1

This is a work in progress as I am learning Python myself. Can we use classes here, could simplify some operations later. I propose to use a coord class to store the coordinates. It would override add and sub so you could do addition and subtraction by simply using operators + and -. You could get the tuple representation with a function built into it.

Class

class coord(object):    
    def __init__(self,x,y):
        self.x = x
        self.y = y

    def __add__(self,c):
        return coord(self.x + c.x, self.y + c.y)

    def __sub__(self,c):
        return coord(self.x - c.x, self.y - c.y)

    def __eq__(self,c): #compares two coords
        return self.x == c.x and self.y == c.y

    def t(self): #return a tuple representation.
        return (self.x,self.y)

Usage

c1 = coord(4,3) #init coords
c2 = coord(3,4)

c3 = c1 + c2    #summing two coordinates. calls the overload __add__
print c3.t()    #prints (7, 7)
c3 = c3 - c1
print c3.t()    #prints (3, 4)
print c3 == c2  #prints True

you could improve coord to extend other operators as well (less than, greater than ..).

In this version after doing your calculations you can call the pygame methods expecting tuples by just saying coord.t(). There might be a better way than have a function to return the tuple form though.