[Tutor] is this code dangerous?

[Alfred Milgrom]

Thanks to everyone who helped me out with this question.

>What do you mean by dangerous?

What I meant by 'dangerous' was that I had named the class 'cranky', and 
then threw away the reference by naming the instance 'cranky' as well.

Anyway, I just wanted to share the solution that I think I will adopt:

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class Person:
     def __init__(self, name):
         self.name = name

     def speak(self, dummy):
         print "%s says: my name is %s" % (self.name, self.name)

     def crankyspeak(self):
         print "%s says: I don't tell anyone my name" % (self.name)

hobbit = Person('Bilbo Baggins')

cranky = Person('someone else')
cranky.speak=Person.crankyspeak

hobbit.speak(hobbit)
cranky.speak(cranky)

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The benefits from my point of view are:

* I don't have to create a large number of classes
* all the code for the methods are in the one place (Person class)
* I can easily mix and match the methods for any instance without the 
difficulties that Alan mentioned
* the same code structure (albeit more unwieldy than usual) can be used for 
every instance/method combination (ie no problems with unbound methods or 
not passing self parameter)

Thanks again for your help,
Fred Milgrom