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On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Prasad, Ramit
<ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> wrote:
>>def double(obj): return 2*obj.value
>>
>>class C:
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 def __init__(self, val):
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 self.value =3D val
>>
>>c =3D C(3)
>>C.double =3D double
>>c.doub =3D double
>># not c.double as that would mask access to C.double in c.double() below
>>print(double(c), C.double(c), c.double(), c.doub(c))
>
> Sorry if I get some of the following terminology wrong, I get a bit confu=
sed on Python terms. I hope the following is still coherent. (Is there a di=
ctionary of Python terminology?)

The documentation has a glossary:
http://docs.python.org/glossary.html
It's not entirely comprehensive though.

Cheers,
Chris