Guido van Rossum wrote: ...
Here's an example of the difference:
class C: def f(s): pass f.__repr__ = lambda: "42" print C().f.__repr__()
This prints "42". If you comment out the PyDescr_IsData() call, it will print "<bound method C.f of <__main__.C instance at 0x...>>".
I'm not entirely clear what goes wrong in your case.
Well, in my case, I try to pickle a bound method, so I expect that C().f.__reduce__ gives me a reasonable object: A method of an instance of C that is able to do an __reduce__, that is, I need the bound f and try to get its __reduce__ in a bound way. If that's not the way to do it, which is it? thanks - chris -- Christian Tismer :^) <mailto:tismer@tismer.com> Mission Impossible 5oftware : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's Johannes-Niemeyer-Weg 9a : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ 14109 Berlin : PGP key -> http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ work +49 30 89 09 53 34 home +49 30 802 86 56 mobile +49 173 24 18 776 PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04 whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/