[Python-Dev] Getting rid of unbound methods: patch available

[Nick Coghlan]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> What do people think? (My main motivation for this, as stated before,
> is that it adds complexity without much benefit.)

Something important that came up in my response to Marc-Andre:

What about C method implementations which are relying on this typecheck and 
assuming that 'self' is (nearly) guaranteed to be of the correct type?

The string object implementation is where I noticed this assumption being made, 
but I suspect it would be fairly widespread.

Obviously, use of im_func can break such code already, but that's a far cry from 
having C.f skip the type check.

Cheers,
Nick.

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