[Tutor] how-to override method in instance

[Adam Groszer]

Dear all,

I have an object (from omniORB), which has __del__ defined in it's base
class (CORBA.Object).
If I'm right I cannot override the class, from which the object is
instantiated.
But somehow I'd like to override the __del__ method of the object to do some
housekeeping when the object gets gc'd. Actually I'd like to call a method
on the server, then let the base __del__ do it's work.

I had something like this in my mind:

def janitor(self):
    print 'janitor'

    self.done() #call method on the server first
    self.__super__del() #good-bye

...
    obj.__super__del = obj.__del__
    obj.__del__ = new.instancemethod(janitor, obj, obj.__class__)
...

Adam