deleting a method

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Sun Jan 4 08:46:06 EST 2009


Manish Sinha wrote:
> Filip Gruszczyński wrote:
>> I am trying to delete a method from a class. It's easy to delete other
>> attributes, but when I try:
>>
>>   
>>>>> class A:
>>>>>         
>> ...     def foo():
>> ...             pass
>> ...
>>   
>>>>> a = A()
>>>>> del a.foo
>>>>>         
>>
>> I get
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> AttributeError: A instance has no attribute 'foo'
>>
>> Why is it so and how may still delete it?
>>
>>   
> Sounds crazy....
> 
> If you want to delete a function, create lambda functions though am not
> sure whether it can be deleted or not.
> 
In what sense are lambda functions any more or less "deletable" than
functions or methods created using the "def" statement?

regards
 Steve
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