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     <title>
       Special Method and Operator Support
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       <h1>
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         "../../../c++boost.gif" alt="c++boost.gif (8819 bytes)">Special Method and
         Operator Support
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@@ -202,7 +201,7 @@ BigNum operator+(BigNum, BigNum)
         or as member
         functions <blockquote><pre>
 BigNum BigNum::operator+(BigNum).
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       <p>
         For the Python built-in functions <code>pow()</code> and
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       iteration idiom looks like
 <blockquote><pre>
 for i in S:
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 while in C++ one writes
 
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 for (iterator i = S.begin(), end = S.end(); i != end; ++i)
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 <p>One could try to wrap C++ iterators in order to carry the C++ idiom into
       Python. However, this does not work very well because 
