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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Jan 28 23:46:12 CET 2005

Josiah Carlson wrote:

While it seems that super() is the 'modern paradigm' for this, I have been using base.method(self, ...) for years now, and have been quite happy with it.

I too would be very disappointed if base.method(self, ...) became somehow deprecated. Cooperative super calls are a different beast altogether and have different use cases.

In fact I'm having difficulty finding any use cases at all for super() in my code. I thought I had found one once, but on further reflection I changed my mind.

And I have found that the type checking of self provided by unbound methods has caught a few bugs that would probably have produced more mysterious symptoms otherwise. But I can't say for sure whether they would have been greatly more mysterious -- perhaps not.

-- Greg

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