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

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Fri Nov 23 08:12:28 CET 2007


Guido van Rossum wrote:

It looks like we're in agreement to drop unbound methods and have a reasonable set or arguments around it (e.g. keep staticmethod, no changes to methods of builtin types, etc.). Do we need a PEP? It's essentially a 2-line change in funcobject.c (funcdescrget()) -- plus fixing up half a dozen or so unittests that specifically seem to test the behavior of unbound methods.

I'd like to help but after staring at the code for 10 minutes I still don't get how the descriptor function should be altered. Can you please give an example to a mer mortal? :)

Christian



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