Overriding methods per-object

[Aaron Brady]

On Apr 17, 8:22 pm, Pavel Panchekha <PavPanche... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got an object which has a method, __nonzero__
> The problem is, that method is attached to that object not that class
>
> > a = GeneralTypeOfObject()
> > a.__nonzero__ = lambda: False
> > a.__nonzero__()
>
> False
>
> But:
>
> > bool(a)
>
> True
>
> What to do?

The docs don't say you can do that:

Special method names
A class can implement certain operations that are invoked by special
syntax (such as arithmetic operations or subscripting and slicing) by
defining methods with special names.

Should you be able to?