> I'm playing a bit with python dynamic methods and I came up with a
> scenario that I don't understant. Considering the follow code:

> # Declare a dummy class
> class A(object):
>     pass

> # generate a dynamic method and insert it to A class
> for name in ['a', 'b', 'c']:
>     if name == 'b':
>         @property
>         def get_name(self):
>             return name
>         A.name = get_name

> a_instance = A()
> a_instance.name

> # So far I exptect that a_instance.name  returns 'b', since it has
> been created when name == 'b', but this is what actually returns:

>>>> a_instance.name
> 'c'

> just the last 'name' value.
> What can I do in order to generate a method like this but that returns
> 'b' ? What is wrong in my understanding of this pice of code?

> > I'm playing a bit with python dynamic methods and I came up with a
> > scenario that I don't understant. Considering the follow code:

> > # Declare a dummy class
> > class A(object):
> >     pass

> > # generate a dynamic method and insert it to A class
> > for name in ['a', 'b', 'c']:
> >     if name == 'b':
> >         @property
> >         def get_name(self):
> >             return name
> >         A.name = get_name

> > a_instance = A()
> > a_instance.name

> > # So far I exptect that a_instance.name  returns 'b', since it has
> > been created when name == 'b', but this is what actually returns:

> >>>> a_instance.name
> > 'c'

> > just the last 'name' value.
> > What can I do in order to generate a method like this but that returns
> > 'b' ? What is wrong in my understanding of this pice of code?

> Look at the method again:

> >         def get_name(self):
> >             return name

> It returns the global variable name. Why would you expect to see a
> historical value of that variable?

> - The default argument trick:

> def get_name(self, name=name):
>     return name

> - A closure:

> def make_get_name(name):
>     def get_name(self):
>         return name
>     return get_name
> A.name = property(make_get_name(name))

> - functools.partial()

> def get_name(self, name):
>     return name
> A.name = property(partial(get_name, name=name))