[Tutor] Dynamic Method Creation

[bob gailer]

George Flaherty wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to port over some old code from Ruby into Python.  In my old ruby code I had a UnitTest class that created a bunch of test methods (i.e. def test_MyTestFunction) dynamically through the ruby method define_method(http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Module.html#M000396).
>
> This functionally allowed me to create any number of methods dynamically within a particular class. My problem is I have never done this nor can find any examples of this within python and I am pretty sure python can handle this?
>
> If anyone could point me in the right direction?
See the new module's instancemethod method.

 >>> import new
 >>> class A:
...     pass
...
 >>> a=A()
 >>> a.f = new.instancemethod(lambda self:'foo', a, A)
 >>> a.f()
'foo'


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