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Showing posts with label add class attribute from code. Show all posts
Showing posts with label add class attribute from code. Show all posts

Friday, August 31, 2012

Python dynamically add class attribute



Dynamically add attribute of a class is very easy in python. And it is useful to know.
Here I have a class named Arithmetic, now I want to add functionality of this class named addNum which perform add two number.
Lets see the example


 
class Arithmetic(object):
    pass

def arithmetic_function_add(cls):
    def sampleFunction(self,a,b):
        return a+b
    sampleFunction.__name__ = "addNum"
    setattr(cls,sampleFunction.__name__,sampleFunction)

arithmetic_function_add(Arithmetic)

arithmetic=Arithmetic()
print arithmetic.addNum(5,6)




Output:
11