[Tutor] Functional Programming in Python

[WolfRage]

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So I was surprised I did not get more feedback on my abused coroutine, 
maybe that is good or bad, not sure.
Any ways I am on to trying to make that coroutine act more like the 
State Pattern from Gang of Four. And well reading this:
http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/state.html
I am not sure how to do this:
class Heroine
{
public:
   virtual void handleInput(Input input)
   {
     state_->handleInput(*this, input);
   }

   virtual void update()
   {
     state_->update(*this);
   }

   // Other methods...
private:
   HeroineState* state_;
};

(Pointing to the different classes. Since C++ has virtual methods but 
Python does not?) in Python? Do I just reference the new method? Because 
state_ will always be the correct object?