I typed up the examples he used while teaching since we don't have the handouts. This might help to get a better understanding of what he was doing. Everything is commented out also, so don't forget to remove the pound sign before playing. ^_^ Hopefully I typed it all correctly, I haven't played around with it yet.

ETA or you can just go to the lecture video at the MIT website and they have the handout right there.

Examples of overloading
3*4
3*'ab'
'a' + 'bcd'
3 + 'ab'
str(3)+'ab'
'a'<3
4<'3'
'4'<'3'
The code he used

##x=3 #create variable x and assign value 3 to it
##x=x*x # bind x to value 9
##print x
##n = raw_input('Enter a number; ')
##print n
##print n/n

##x=15
##if (x/2)*2 == x:
## print 'Even'
##else: print 'Odd'

##x=15
##if (x/2)*2 == x: print 'Even'
##else: print 'Odd'

##z='b'
##if 'x' < z :
## print 'Hello'
## print 'Mom'

##if 'x'< z :
## print 'Hello'
##print 'Mom'

##x=15
##y=5
##z=11
##print x,y,z
###Is this right?
##if x< y:
## if x< z : print 'x is least'
## else: print 'z is least'
##else: print 'y is least'
##
##if x < y and x < z : print 'x is least'
##elif y < z : print 'y is least'
##else: print 'z is least'


##y=0
##x=3
##itersLeft = x

##while (itersLeft>0):
## y= y+x
## itersLeft = itersLeft -1
###print 'y =',y,',intersLeft=',intersLeft
##print y

##x=10
##i=1
##while(i<x): ## if x%i == 0: ## print 'divisor ',i ## i = i+1 ##x = 10 ##for i in range(1,x): ## if x%i == 0: ## print 'divisor ',i