Python: Do something for any method of a class?

Question

Say I have a class with a bunch of methods:

class Human():

  def eat():
    print(\"eating\")

  def sleep():
    print(\"sleeping\")

  def throne():
    print         


        

Answer 1

If you can't change how you call your methods you can use the __getattribute__ magic method (methods are attributes too remember!) you just have to be careful to check the type of attributes so you don't print "I am:" every time you want to access any string or int attributes you may have:

class Human(object):
    def __getattribute__(self, attr):
        method = object.__getattribute__(self, attr)
        if not method:
            raise Exception("Method %s not implemented" % attr)
        if callable(method):
             print "I am:"
        return method

    def eat(self):
        print "eating"

    def sleep(self):
       print "sleeping"

    def throne(self):
        print "on the throne"

John = Human()
John.eat()
John.sleep()
John.throne()

Outputs:

I am:
eating
I am:
sleeping
I am:
on the throne