Kenneth McDonald wrote:
> I can see an obvious but hacky way to define a Python function at
> runtime. I can't see any obvious way to add a method to a class at
> runtime (though I'm sure one could do just about anything by digging
> into the metaclass stuff, which I will do if needed). But pointers to
> cleaner or easier existing ways to do this would be most appreciated.
>
> In case it's of interest in the context of the question, I need to
> define a largish set of functions (and similar methods) that define a
> XML-type markup language. Most of these functions will just be of the form
>
> def fun(...):
> return Node('fun', ...)
>
> so it'd definitely be nice to just create most of them automatically,
> and only do the special cases by hand.
Something like::
method = ['fun', ...]
for method in methods:
setattr(MyClass, method, lambda *x: Node(method, *x))
The first argument here will be the implicit self, if you don't want
that, strip off the first argument (or use lambda self, *x: ...).
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