Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Difference method vs attribut = function Date: 29 Jun 2024 20:48:58 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 45 Expires: 1 Feb 2025 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de Mjt/HKY+mash8VhbQdpM1wHxpV+waU+Y88HkCmKbi7ZA9E Cancel-Lock: sha1:taowRxxOvJyfFFjBsI24mL8RyJo= sha256:2G7iaydvrn1ffI+myiFekVzh0le3u+ZD9kEgw2y1olw= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2024 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2317 Ulrich Goebel wrote or quoted: >a class can have methods, and it can have attributes, which >can hold a function. Both is well known, of course. Methods are attributes too: Main.py class c: def m(): pass print( *( name for name in dir( c )if not name.startswith( '__' ))) sys.stdout m . >class MyClass: > def __init__(self): > functionAttribute = None Your local name "functionAttribute" is not an attribute of "MyClass". >mc = MyClass() >mc.functionAttribute = function Above, you only add an attribute to "mc", not to "MyClass". >By the way: in my usecase I want to pass different functions >to different instances of MyClass. class MyClass: def __init__( self ): self.function = None def accept( self, function ): self.function = function mc = MyClass() mc.accept( print ) mc_1 = MyClass() mc_1.accept( dir )