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[Skip Montanaro]

    Paul> Gordon McMillan wrote:
    >> If you're catching specific methods, why not subclass? 

    Paul> You cannot subclass objects that are passed to you. 

Maybe I'm way out of context here, but can't you subclass on-the-fly with
something like:

    def func(o):
	class sub(o.__class__):
	    def __init__(self, o):
		self.__dict__ = copy.copy(o.__dict__)
	    def othermethod(self,...):
		pass

        o = sub(o)
	o.othermethod(...)
	...

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