[Python-Dev] Getting rid of unbound methods: patch available

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:12 PM 1/16/05 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>I couldn't remove support for unbound methods
>completely, since they were used by the built-in
>exceptions. (We can get rid of that use once we convert
>to new-style exceptions.)

Will it still be possible to create an unbound method with 
new.instancemethod?  (I know the patch doesn't change this, I mean, is it 
planned to remove the facility from the instancemethod type?)