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Overriding Comparison Operators in Python
When modeling systems in any programming language, we occasionally need our custom objects to be comparable. This is useful for when the class encapsulates a calculation based on some attributes and we want to sort them, or if we want to make direct comparisons to know if two instances are equivalent. In Python, we implement this sort of behavior by defining a suite of double underscore ("dunder") methods on our classes. These allow our custom class instances to be compared using the same operators that we would use if we wanted to know if one integer was greater than or equal to the next. In this hands-on lab, you'll be building a class to model a `Lead` for your sales team so that they can compare and rank leads in the system.
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Challenge
Create the Lead Model and Calculate Lead Score
Before you can start working on the sorting of leads, you need to have a model. Your coworker has requested that you create the
Leadclass within thelead.pyfile next totest_lead.py. Be sure to create the initializer for the class and have it take the proper arguments:namestaff_sizeestimated_revenueeffort_factor
With these implemented, you'll also want to add a method (or calculated property) to return the calculated lead score. Here's the formula to use:
1 / (staff_size / estimated_revenue * (10 ** (digits_in_revenue - digits_in_staff_size)) * effort_factor)The automated tests assume that
lead_scoreis a method, but you can adjust the test file if you'd rather it be calculated property instead.You can run the unit tests with the following command:
python -m unittest -
Challenge
Implement the Equivalence Comparison Operators
The first set of operators that you need to implement are the
==and!=operators. These should compare the lead score of the twoLeadinstances being compared. You can implement these using the__eq__and__ne__methods, and these methods should compare the lead scores of the instances. Implementing these methods should make a few more automated tests pass.You can run the unit tests with the following command:
python -m unittest -
Challenge
Implement the Ordering Operators
With the equivalence operators implemented, you're ready to move onto implementing the ordering operators:
<,>,<=, and>=. These operators can be implemented by defining the__lt__,__gt__,__le__, and__ge__methods, and these methods should compare the lead scores of the instances. Implementing these methods should get the remaining automated tests to pass.You can run the unit tests with the following command:
python -m unittest
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