[Tutor] constructing semi-arbitrary functions

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 07:58:00PM +0000, Oscar Benjamin wrote:

> The "right" solution is to change the interface of the third party
> function. It is poorly designed and should not be inspecting those function
> attributes or it should at least provide an option for you to provide that
> information in a different way. Assuming it's open source you could try
> sending a patch. In the mean time you could copy that code and modify it to
> suit your purposes.

This may be a good case for some of the Design Patterns so popular in 
the Java world.

I think what you want is an Adaptor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapter_pattern

only written for a function rather than a class.



-- 
Steven