Terry Reedy wrote:
One of the nice features of 3.0 is that differences between classes defined in C and Python (other than speed) are mostly erased or hidden from the view of a Python programmer.
However, there are still sometimes surprising and quite visible differences between 'functions' written in C and Python. Can these be better unified also?
In particular, built-in functions, in spite of of being labeled 'builtin_function_or_method', are not usable as methods because they lack the __get__ method needed to bind function to instance.
Python is far too late in the release cycle to introduce a drastic change. The issues has been discussed about half a year ago and we decided against changing PyCFunction. But it was a good thing that you've raises your concern. I totally forgot about the new instancemethod type. My code is still in classobject.c but it's not exposed to Python level. IIRC the Pyrex/Cython guys are in need of such a feature. Patch: --- Python/bltinmodule.c (revision 66222) +++ Python/bltinmodule.c (working copy) @@ -2301,6 +2301,7 @@ SETBUILTIN("frozenset", &PyFrozenSet_Type); SETBUILTIN("property", &PyProperty_Type); SETBUILTIN("int", &PyLong_Type); + SETBUILTIN("instancemethod", &PyInstanceMethod_Type); SETBUILTIN("list", &PyList_Type); SETBUILTIN("map", &PyMap_Type); SETBUILTIN("object", &PyBaseObject_Type); Result: $ ./python Python 3.0b3+ (py3k:66222M, Sep 5 2008, 02:24:22) [GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
class Example: ... id = instancemethod(id) ... example = Example() example.id() == id(example) True
Christian