Adding method to object

[Sean Ross]

"marco" <marc.lentz at ctrceal.caisse-epargne.fr> wrote in message
news:bql820$uka$1 at s1.read.news.oleane.net...
> > > Is it possible to do the same thing for an attribut, instead of a
method
> ?
> > >
> > > i'd like to wrap an newAttribute to an oldAttribute one :
> > > example:
> > > i've got an instance "n" of an "xmlNode" class
> > > i'd like to use "n.parentNode" instead of "n.parent" ...
> > [snip]
> >
> > # try this ...
> > n.parentNode = n.parent
>
> i'll try,
> but ... it s not dynamic ....
>
> if n.parent change .... n.parentNode will not change ... it must be
> re-affected ... not ?
>

You're right. Sorry about that. Maybe you could use a property?

n.__class__.parentNode = property(lambda self: self.parent, ... etc ... )

This way you can get/set/del  n.parent using n.parentNode, and changes
to n.parent will be reflect in n.parentNode.

There's probably another way, but I can't think of it at the moment...

Hope that's a little more helpful than the last suggestion,
Sean