[Python-Dev] [python] Should we do away with unbound methods in Py3k?
Guido van Rossum
guido at python.org
Thu Nov 22 04:16:27 CET 2007
On Nov 21, 2007 4:25 PM, Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Though I'd like to know what happens when I do something like::
>
> >>> class C(object):
> ... def __setitem__(self, key, value):
> ... print key, value
> ...
> >>> c = C()
> >>> dict.update(c, foo='bar')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: descriptor 'update' requires a 'dict' object but received a 'C'
>
> I assume the code will fail (though it would be really cool if it
> didn't). How will it fail?
I expect it won't change -- built-in types use a different mechanism.
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