Dynamically adding methods to a class in Python

I recently found a way to dynamically create method and add it to a class.  I wanted to figure this out because I had a decent list of properties in the class that I wanted to create a "get" function for.  That way I can use a function called get(property name) for accessing that property instead of calling it directly.  However, since the list way fairly long, I didn't want to have to type out all of the functions if I could find a way to dynamically create them.  

The class had a list of properties such as:

properties = ['name', 'number', 'location']

Then, in the class, I created a fairly generic function called getPropertyValue(self, *args, **kwargs), which took an argument of the name of the property that we wanted to get the value for.  So it ended up being something like:

def getProperty(self, *args, **kwargs):
      if kwargs:
            # check to make sure we have a property argument passed in
            propertyName = kwargs.get('property', None)

            # check to make sure the property name is in the list of properties
            if propertyName in self.properties:
                  # get the value of the property and return it
                  return getattr(self, propertyName)

From there I can then create a function based off of that generic function called something like getName() dynamically.  To do this I used a for loop in the __init__ function for the class.  It ended up being:

for prop in self.properties:
      self.__dict__['get%s' % prop] = types.MethodType(pm.windows.Callback(self.getProperty,
                                                       {}, property = prop), self)

The tricky part was calling a function with an argument using MethodType. I started by trying to use a lambda function, but this does not work very well in for loops due to scope issues. Luckily I was doing this for a script in Maya, so I was able to use PyMEL which has a Callback object that solves this for me. That is what the pm.windows.Callback is, and it works well in this case since I am running this from Maya. It returns an instance of the method back to me with the proper argument set for it.