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

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Thu Jul 4 21:59:03 CEST 2013


On 04/07/2013 20:50, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> 2013/7/4 Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com>:
>>
>> You could always monkeypatch builtins.__build_class__ to add an attribute to
>> every "unbound method" pointing to the class.
>
> I would not reccomend that. __build_class__ is very internal and it's
> contract may change between versions.

Right, not to mention the fact that there's no way a library can ensure 
it monkeypatches that before the users of the library have created any 
classes.

cheers,

Chris

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