Stupid Python trick

[Ben Wolfson]

I'm sure this can be put to creatively bad use.

Python 2.1b1 (#3, Mar  2 2001, 20:37:19) 
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0)] on linux2
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>>> class D:
	def __init__(self, otherself, v):
		self.val = v
		try: otherself.val = v
		except: pass

>>> import new
>>> d = D(None, 5)
>>> d.val
5
>>> m = new.instancemethod(D, d, D)
>>> m(6)
<__main__.D instance at 0x82df1dc>
>>> d.val
6

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