[Python-Dev] Should we do away with unbound methods in Py3k? (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Nov 22 12:27:03 CET 2007

Guido van Rossum wrote:

Given that the error is of limited value and that otherwise the unbound method behaves exactly the same as the original function object, I'd like to see if there are strenuous objections against dropping unbound method objects altogether (or at least not using them in this case), so that explicit super calls (via the unbound method) may go a little faster. Also, it would make it easier to fix this issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue1109

Assuming the proposal is simply to change function.get to return self when the second argument is None, then +1.

The method descriptors for types written in C should continue to return a wrapper which performs the typecheck, as C method implementations tend to assume that the self argument is guaranteed to be of the correct type. Having to perform that check manually would be rather tedious.

This does introduce a new discrepancy between types implemented in C and Python classes, but I suspect that the underlying difference in memory layout restrictions is always going to leak through in at least a few places.

Cheers, Nick.

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