17 Jan
2005
17 Jan
'05
6:56 a.m.
On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 22:12 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
What do people think? (My main motivation for this, as stated before, is that it adds complexity without much benefit.)
*** 331,339 **** def test_im_class(): class C: def foo(self): pass
verify(C.foo.im_class is C)
^ Without this, as JP Calderone pointed out earlier, you can't serialize unbound methods. I wouldn't mind that so much, but you can't tell that they're any different from regular functions until you're *de*-serializing them.
In general I like the patch, but what is the rationale for removing im_class from functions defined within classes?