[Python-Dev] lament for the demise of unbound methods

[Eric Snow]

On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> In Python 2, I can figure out whether I have a method or a function, and,
> more importantly, for an unbound method, I can figure out what class the
> method belongs to:
>
> >>> class MyClass(object):
> ...   def method(self): pass
> ...
> >>> MyClass.method
> <unbound method MyClass.method>
> >>> MyClass.method.im_class
> <class '__main__.MyClass'>
>
> There doesn't appear to be any way in Python 3 to do this, which is a
> little surprising and frustrating...
>
> What am I missing here?


You could always monkeypatch builtins.__build_class__ to add an attribute
to every "unbound method" pointing to the class.

-eric
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