Guido's new method definition idea

[Patrick Mullen]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Arnaud Delobelle
<arnodel at googlemail.com> wrote:
> anthony.tolle at gmail.com writes:
>
>> class C:
>>     def createfunc(self):
>>         def self.func(arg):
>>             return arg + 1
>>
>> Or, after the class definition is done, to extend it dynamically:
>>
>> def C.method(self, arg):
>>     self.value = arg
>>
>> ...which would be the equivalent of the following:
>>
>> def method(self, arg):
>>     self.value = arg
>> C.method = method
>
> What about the following then?
>
> functions = {}
>
> def functions['square'](x):
>    return x*x
>
> def functions['cube'](x):
>    return x**3
>
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Why not?  "def ob.func" is fundamentally "def ob.__dict__["func"]" anyway.

I like this idea much better than the original proposal, even though
it is pretty much unrelated.