Completely wrap an object in Python

Question

I am wanting to completely wrap an object so that all attribute and method requests get forwarded to the object it\'s wrapping, but also overriding any methods or variables

Answer 1

Note: This answer is really old and might not work on modern Pythons. I believe it used to work on 2.6

Start with this and mess with stuff in the loop to suit your needs:

import inspect
class Delegate(object):
    def __init__(self, implementation):
        self.__class__ = implementation.__class__
        for n, m in inspect.getmembers(implementation, callable):
            if not n.startswith('_'):
                setattr(self, n, m)

The ability to wrap not-new-style-objects is left as an exercise to the reader :)