Is there an official way to add methods to an instance?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:43:30 -0300, Roger Miller  
<roger.miller at nova-sol.com> escribió:

> On Apr 3, 2:57 pm, Brian Vanderburg II <BrianVanderbu... at aim.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I've checked out some ways to get this to work.  I want to be able to
>> add a new function to an instance of an object.  I've tested two
>> different methods that cause problems with 'deleting'/garbage collection
>> (__del__ may never get called), but implemented one sort of hackishly
>> maybe that works find. I'm wondering if there is more of an official way
>> than mine.
>>
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but the boring old straightforward
> approach works for me:
>
> class A:
>     def __del__(self):
>         print "Deleting"
>
> def f(x):
>     print x
>
> a = A()
> a.f = f
> a.f(42)
> del a

This doesn't create an instance method. You can't access `a` (as `self`)  
 from inside f.


-- 
Gabriel Genellina