Phillip B Oldham <[email protected]> writes:
> Thanks, but I'm looking for a way to do it *without* using a getter
> as I don't have easy access to the class (its being generated for me
> elsewhere). Essentially I'd like to overwrite (if possible) the
> default behavior when returning certain attributes on certain
> objects.
You can override the behaviour of a class by defining a subclass.
class UntouchableTypeWrapper(UntouchableType):
def _foo_get(self):
return str(self.foo)
foo = property(_foo_get)
Then you can create instances of the wrapper class where you want the
new behaviour.
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