Unbound methods of types

[Ben Hutchings]

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:
<snip>
> # 4. special case, as you note, for string. stuff
> L = map(string.capitalize, l)
<snip>

I feel that it ought to be possible to use type("").capitalize here,
as one could do with a class method.  Why is it not possible to get
unbound methods from types?  Should it be?

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