On Dec 1, 10:47 pm, James Mills <prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Jeremy <jlcon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have some methods that I need (would like) to define outside of the > > class. I know this can be done by defining the function and then > > setting it equal to some member of an instance of the class. But, > > because of the complexity of what I'm doing (I have to set many > > functions as class methods) I would rather not do this. Can someone > > show me how to do this? Is it even possible? Can decorators be used > > here? > > Do you mean something like this ? > > @classmethod > def foo(cls): > print "I am the foo classmethod on %r" % cls > > class Foo(object): > pass > > Foo.foo = foo > > cheers > James
Thanks, James. That is almost exactly what I want. However, I want to avoid doing Foo.foo = foo Is this going to be possible? I'm trying to understand how decorators are used. Are they really necessary in this example? Thanks, Jeremy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
