[Python-Dev] CALL_ATTR patch (was: 2.3b1 release)

[Greg Ewing]

> There are two ways to "bind" a built-in function to an object.
> 
> One would be to do what happens for Python functions, which is in
> effect a currying: f.__get__(obj) yields a function g that when called
> as g(arg1, ...) calls f(obj, arg1, ...).

That's the one I'm talking about. I forgot to explain that the problem
occurs when I'm creating a *Python* class object and populating it
with functions that are supposed to be methods. Currently I have to
manually wrap each function in an unbound method object before putting
it in the class's __dict__. If that happened automatically on access,
I would be able to create Python classes that behave more like the
real thing.

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