Adding method to a class on the fly

[John Henry]

Found a message on the web that says I need to use setattr to add the
method to the class at run time.  But how do I do that?

Regards,

On Jun 22, 12:02 pm, John Henry <john106he... at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have a need to create class methods on the fly.  For example, if I
> do:
>
> class Dummy:
>     def __init__(self):
>         exec '''def method_dynamic(self):\n\treturn
> self.method_static("it's me")'''
>         return
>
>     def method_static(self, text):
>         print text
>         return
>
> I like that to be the same as:
>
> class Dummy:
>     def __init__(self):
>         return
>
>     def method_dynamic(self):
>         return self.method_static("it's me")
>
>     def method_static(self, text):
>         print text
>         return
>
> so that I can do:
>
> dum=Dummy.method_dynamic()
>
> and see "it's me" printed.
>
> Can that be done?
>
> Thanks,