Question

This one seems a bit tricky to me. Sometime ago I already managed to overwrite an instance’s method with something like:

def my_method(self, attr):
    pass

instancemethod = type(self.method_to_overwrite)
self.method_to_overwrite = instancemethod(my_method, self, self.__class__)

which worked very well for me; but now I’m trying to overwrite an instance’s __getattribute__() function, which doesn’t work for me for the reason the method seems to be

<type 'method-wrapper'>

Is it possible to do anything about that? I couldn’t find any decent Python documentation on method-wrapper.

Answer 1

I believe method-wrapper is a wrapper around a method written in C.