[Python-3000] Get rid of Py_FindMethod

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

Hello,

http://bugs.python.org/issue3247 complains that with python 3.0, dir()
of a SRE_Match object returns an empty list.

This type has the particularity to not define a tp_methods; instead,
its tp_getattr slot calls Py_FindMethod(match_methods, self, name)
where "match_methods" is a PyMethodDef[] array that looks very very
similar to a typical tp_methods slot.

Py_FindMethod has a trick: when the requested name is "__methods__",
it returns the names of the PyMethodDef items.

__methods__ has disappeared with python 3.0, and indeed if I enable
the "-3" warning flag on python2.6,
dir() on a SRE_Match object raises two (!) warnings:
__main__:1: DeprecationWarning: __methods__ not supported in 3.x
__main__:1: DeprecationWarning: __members__ and __methods__ not supported in 3.x

According to previous discussions:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-July/008787.html
Py_FindMethod is not needed any more in modern modules, and should go away.
Note that PyMember_Get has already disappeared, because the few
modules using them were deleted...

Is it still time for such a change after beta1?
There are ~30 occurrences of Py_FindMethod in the code base.
Most of the time, it is enough to remove the call, and set the
tp_methods members.


Another thing: why was traceback.__dir__ added?
the current 3.0 produces:
>>> dir(b.__traceback__)
['tb_frame', 'tb_lasti', 'tb_lineno', 'tb_next']

When I remove the __dir__ method, I get the special methods as well:
>>> dir(b.__traceback__)
['__class__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__',
'__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__',
'__le__', '__lt__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__',
'__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__',
'__subclasshook__', 'tb_frame', 'tb_lasti', 'tb_lineno', 'tb_next']

It's more verbose, but most types have the same list of special
members. I suggest to remove it, to enhance consistency (loosing some
2.6 compatibility, but it's python3.0 after all)

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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc