def voodoo(function, *its_arguments):
    from new import instancemethod
    def child(function, first_argument, *rest_of_arguments):
        if rest_of_arguments:
            return child(
                instancemethod(function, first_argument, object),
                *rest_of_arguments
            )
        else:
            return instancemethod(function, first_argument, object)
    return child(function, *its_arguments)

The import statement is in the voodoo just for completeness including it
here.
The function above recurses in order to allow stuff like:

getter = voodoo(getattr, my_object, "its_attribute")

or the more modern

getter = voodoo(operator.itemgetter("its_attribute"), my_object)

and similarly

setter = voodoo(operator, my_object, "its_attribute")

allowing

setter(value)

at good speeds.