[Python-3000] Method descriptors

[Guido van Rossum]

On Dec 12, 2007 3:06 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > On Dec 12, 2007 2:45 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> >
> >>Can you give me a link to that? I wasn't following the
> >>discussion that closely.
> >
> > http://svn.python.org/view?rev=59469&view=rev
>
> That's not quite what I had in mind -- Pyrex already solves
> the problem by wrapping the function in another object.
> My suggestion was to make the PyCFunction itself obey the
> descriptor protocol so as to create bound methods.

As I explained earlier, that would break a fair amount of existing code.

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