[Python-Dev] Let's get rid of unbound methods

[Jim Fulton]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 10:28 AM 1/4/05 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
>> Of course, more changes would be needed: docs, the test suite, and
>> some simplifications to the instance method object implementation in
>> classobject.c.
>>
>> Does anyone think this is a bad idea?
> 
> 
> Code that currently does 'aClass.aMethod.im_func' in order to access the 
> function object would break, as would code that inspects 'im_self' to 
> determine whether a method is a class or instance method.  (Although 
> code of the latter sort would already break with static methods, I 
> suppose.)

Code of the latter sort wouldn't break with the change. We'd still
have bound methods.

Jim

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