[New-bugs-announce] [issue25435] Wrong function calls and referring to not removed concepts in descriptor HowTo (documentation)

[David Becher]

New submission from David Becher:

Since Python 3 removed unbound methods, I found some references using the old terminology in this HowTo about descriptors (https://docs.python.org/3/howto/descriptor.html). Also, since unbound methods have been removed, the function call types.MethodType now only takes two arguments, namely the function to bind and the object to bind to. In the current documentation, however, the old function call with three arguments is still being used.

I made a pull request on github, then I realized that it is just a mirror repo. Attached you will see a patch file with some of the obvious changes that could me made to the document

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
files: 21.diff.txt
messages: 253159
nosy: David Becher, docs at python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Wrong function calls and referring to not removed concepts in descriptor HowTo (documentation)
versions: Python 3.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file40812/21.diff.txt

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