[Python-Dev] Let's get rid of unbound methods (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum gvanrossum at gmail.com
Wed Jan 5 19:10:32 CET 2005

Um, isn't all this stuff going to be more complicated and spread out over more of the code than just leaving unbound methods in place?

Well, in an early version of Python it was as simple as I'd like ot to be again: the instancemethod type was only used for bound methods (hence the name) and C.f would return same the function object as C.dict["f"]. Apart from backwards compatibility with all the code that has grown cruft to deal with the fact that C.f is not a function object, I still see no reason why the current state of affairs is better.

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