Those of you working on Capture-the-Flag may be interested in a Python feature that lets you overload operators.

Line 114 of baselineTeam.py includes: features * weights.

Python implements the * operator with the __mul__ method.

features and weights are both Counters. Counters are defined in util.py file. The Counter class defined its own __mul__ method on line 332.

For additional discussion and explanation, see Python Operator Overloading and Emulating Numeric Types in the Python documentation.