Dave> When implementing keyword argument support for Boost.Python, I noticed the Dave> following. I'm sure it's not worth a lot of effort to change this behavior, Dave> but I thought someone might like to know: Dave> class X: Dave> ... def foo(self, y): print y Dave> ... Dave> X.foo(y = 1, self = X()) Dave> Traceback (most recent call last): Dave> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? Dave> TypeError: unbound method foo() must be called with X instance as first Dave> argument (got nothing instead) Perhaps more interesting: >>> X.foo(X(), 1) 1 >>> X.foo(self = X(), y = 1) TypeError: unbound method foo() must be called with X instance as first argument (got nothing instead) -- Andrew Koenig, ark@research.att.com, http://www.research.att.com/info/ark