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Re: confused about the different built-in functions in Python

From	Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: confused about the different built-in functions in Python
Date	2014-05-27 11:14 +1200
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Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> IOW, you can override a method with setattr() but you cannot delete a
> method with delattr().

Actually, you can -- but you need to delete it from
the class, not the instance:

 >>> delattr(X, 'f')
 >>> x.f()
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'X' object has no attribute 'f'

-- 
Greg

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Re: confused about the different built-in functions in Python Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-26 14:51 -0400
  Re: confused about the different built-in functions in Python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-26 22:00 +0300
    Re: confused about the different built-in functions in Python Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> - 2014-05-26 21:47 +0200
      Re: confused about the different built-in functions in Python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-26 23:32 +0300
        Re: confused about the different built-in functions in Python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-26 23:58 +0300
          Re: confused about the different built-in functions in Python Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-05-27 11:14 +1200
          Re: confused about the different built-in functions in Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-27 01:21 +0000
        Re: confused about the different built-in functions in Python Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-26 22:00 -0400

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