Dynamic/runtime method creation (code generation) in Python
Function docstrings and names are mutable properties. You can do anything you want in the inner function, or even have multiple versions of the inner function that makedynamo() chooses between. No need to build any code out of strings.
Here's a snippet out of the interpreter:
>>> def makedynamo(i):
... def innerdynamo():
... print "in dynamo %d" % i
... innerdynamo.__doc__ = "docstring for dynamo%d" % i
... innerdynamo.__name__ = "dynamo%d" % i
... return innerdynamo
>>> dynamo10 = makedynamo(10)
>>> help(dynamo10)
Help on function dynamo10 in module __main__:
dynamo10()
docstring for dynamo10
Based on Theran's code, but extending it to methods on classes:
class Dynamo(object):
pass
def add_dynamo(cls,i):
def innerdynamo(self):
print "in dynamo %d" % i
innerdynamo.__doc__ = "docstring for dynamo%d" % i
innerdynamo.__name__ = "dynamo%d" % i
setattr(cls,innerdynamo.__name__,innerdynamo)
for i in range(2):
add_dynamo(Dynamo, i)
d=Dynamo()
d.dynamo0()
d.dynamo1()
Which should print:
in dynamo 0
in dynamo 1