adding a method to an existing builtin class

TP Tribulations at Paralleles.invalid
Sun Sep 26 12:07:22 EDT 2010


Hi everybody,

Today I have learned a bit of the news of Python 3.0 compared to 2.4 
version.

By the way, I have asked myself if it is possible to add a method to a 
builtin type as 'unicode':

>>> a="foo"
>>> type(a)
<type 'unicode'>
>>> print(dir(a))
['__add__', ..., 'zfill']

For example, I would like to add a "colorize" method to 'unicode' objects. 
Is this possible?
Or am I compelled to derive the unicode builtin as below:

class my_unicode(unicode):
   def __init__( self, unicode_string ):
     super( my_unicode, self ).__init__(  )
   def colorize( self ):
       return "\x1b[93;102m" + self + "\x1b[0m"

my_unicode_string = my_unicode( "coucou" )
print( type( my_unicode_string ) )
print( my_unicode_string.colorize() )
print( my_unicode_string.upper() )

Thanks,

Julien

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