On 2 déc, 15:45, Jeremy <jlcon...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 1, 10:47 pm, James Mills <prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Jeremy <jlcon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have some methods that I need (would like) to define outside of the > > > class. I know this can be done by defining the function and then > > > setting it equal to some member of an instance of the class. But, > > > because of the complexity of what I'm doing (I have to set many > > > functions as class methods) I would rather not do this. Can someone > > > show me how to do this? Is it even possible? Can decorators be used > > > here? > > > Do you mean something like this ? > > > @classmethod > > def foo(cls): > > print "I am the foo classmethod on %r" % cls > > > class Foo(object): > > pass > > > Foo.foo = foo > > > cheers > > James > > Thanks, James. That is almost exactly what I want. However, I want to avoid > doing > > Foo.foo = foo > > Is this going to be possible?
def patch(cls): def _patch(func): setattr(cls, func.__name__, func) return func return _patch class Foo(object): pass @patch(Foo) def bar(self): print self f = Foo() f.bar() > I'm trying to understand how decorators > are used. Are they really necessary in this example? In the above example, the classmethod type was used as a decorator to turn the function into, well, a classmethod (read my other answer in this thread if you don't know what a classmethod is). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list