On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:55:46 -0800, The Music Guy wrote: > Lie Ryan, I think I see what you're saying about using __dict__ to add > members to a class, but it's not quite the same. __dict__ is only for > attributes, NOT properties, methods, etc. which all come from the class > of an object rather than the object's __dict__.
Almost but not quite. It's just special double-underscore methods like __init__ __add__ etc that have to be in the class rather than the instance. (To be precise, you can add such a method to the instance, but it won't be called automatically.) Likewise staticmethods and classmethods won't work correctly unless they are in the class. But ordinary methods work fine: the only tricky bit is creating them in the first place. >>> class K(object): ... pass ... >>> k = K() >>> import types >>> k.method = types.MethodType(lambda self: "I am %s" % self, k) >>> k.method() 'I am <__main__.K object at 0xb7cc7d4c>' -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
