Add a method to a gtk class?

[Wolfnoliir]

On 29/04/2010 17:22, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 04/29/2010 10:03 AM, Wolfnoliir wrote:
>> On 29/04/2010 17:03, Joe Riopel wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Wolfnoliir <wolfnoliir at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I would like to add a method to the gtk.TextBuffer class to save a text
>>>> buffer to a file, but I get an error:
>>>
>>> I don't know gtk, but can you inherit from the TextBuffer class create
>>> your own TexBuffer subclass with the save_to_file method?
>>
>> I suppose I could but the point of adding a method is to make things
>> simpler (than having a separate function) so I don't really want to do that.
> 
> Given that Gtk+ classes in python are often thin wrappers around opaque,
> binary Gobject-based objects, perhaps the gtk.TextBuffer cannot be
> monkey-patched in this way.
> 
> 
OK, I suppose I will just have to use an ordinary function then.