Override a method in another module

Bruce Edge edgebruce at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 1 19:44:42 EDT 2002


Chris Liechti wrote:

> Bruce Edge <edgebruce at yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:Fppm9.30728$V64.5796737 at newsfeed.slurp.net:
> 
>> What's the basic syntax to override (redefine) a function in another
>> module at runtime?
>> 
>> Say, I have module M, class C, method F, and I want to redifine method
>> F.
>> 
>> setattr( M.C.F, eval("def F(self): pass"))  doesn't exactly work.....
> 
> and how does:
>>>> def F(self): pass
>>>> M.C.F = F          #or setattr(M.C, 'F', F)
> ?
> 
> hints:
> 1) setattr needs 3 args
> 2) eval works only for expressions and "def" is a keyword
> 
> chris
> 

Woo Hoo!!! Works !! Thank you.
I can stop banging my head on my desk now.

-Bruce.



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