Operator overloading and __getattr__

[John Roth]

"Samuel Kleiner" <sam at h41n2fls31o839.telia.com> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to create methods on method access- but __getattr__ fails
> with operator overloading(below) Any suggestions? EG:

I haven't a clue what you're trying to do, but
I believe it's not possible to install "magic methods"
after the class is defined. Nor can you install
them in the instance. They'll look like they've
been installed, but the interpreter will never
execute them because it does not look there
for them. It looks in special places in the C
language structure for the class definition.

John Roth

>
> class NewM(dict):
>     def __getattr__(self,name):
>         def fi(m):
>             if type(name) in self:
>                 self[type(name)]=self[type(name)].__dict__[name](m)
>             else:
>                 self[type(name)]=m
>         return fi
>
> p=int(2)
> s=NewM()
> print p.__add__(2)
> print s.__add__(2)
> print p+2
> print s+2
>
> Causes TypeError on the last line
>
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