Properties, Methods, Events

[Fredrik Lundh]

John Flynn wrote:
> > Do you know of any way to trap an ordinary method call? Eg. if Time-
> > Bomb has a method 'tick', can we find a way to know automatically when
> > it is called?
>
> Ahem... On second thoughts, this goes down as the dopiest and most
> meaningless question in history.

why?  assuming that you meant "... when it is called, without modifying
the method", it's a rather interesting question.

(hint: let __getattr__ return a proxy object if the member is callable, and
let that object call the original method from its __call__ method)

Cheers /F