### """ Snippet 0x93.2b: example of outputting a special type class DMXLevel(float): def __init__(self,f): self.value = min(max(0,f),255) ... def __get__(...) # maybe output.dmxlevel = DMXLevel(300) >>> print output.dmxlevel 255 dmxlevel = DMXLevel(3) dmxlevel += 800 d = d + 800 There's yer problem: http://python.org/doc/current/ref/numeric-types.html#l2h-152 """