[Python-ideas] Improve error message when missing 'self' in method definition

[Ivan Levkivskyi]

On 5 October 2016 at 20:55, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Speaking of, I'm not much of a C hacker, and messing with CPython internals
>> is a little daunting. If anyone wants to take this on, you have my
>> blessing. I also may take a shot at implementing this idea in the next
>> couple weeks when I have some time.
>>
>
> It would help if you could create an issue and write exhaustive unittests
> (or at least specifying how exactly the patch should work for all corner
> cases).  Someone with the knowledge of CPython internals will later add the
> missing C code to the patch.
>
> Yury
>
>
I agree with Yury here. There are corner cases (like what to do with
classmethods etc). If behaviour for all of them are specified, it would be
quite straightforward to implement this.

--
Ivan
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