So I've looked at similar questions, and I've found some solutions to this, but I can't quite figure out how to do this.
What I'm trying to do is add a method to a class from a string. I can do this with the setattr()
method, but that won't let me use self
as an attribute in the extra method. Here's an example: (and I apologize for the variable names, I always use yolo when I'm mocking up an idea)
class what:
def __init__(self):
s = 'def yolo(self):\n\tself.extra = "Hello"\n\tprint self.extra'
exec(s)
setattr(self,"yolo",yolo)
what().yolo()
returns this:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: yolo() takes exactly 1 argument (0 given)
and if s = 'def yolo():\n\tself.extra = "Hello"\n\tprint self.extra'
then I get this result:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<string>", line 2, in yolo
NameError: global name 'self' is not defined
This essentially means that I cannot dynamically create methods for classes, which I know is bad practice and unpythonic, because the methods would be unable to access the variables that the rest of the class has access to.
I appreciate any help.