new style class

[Wildemar Wildenburger]

gert wrote:
> oops the code is like this but doesn't work
> 
> class Test(object):
> 
>     def m1(self,v):
>         return v
> 
>     def m2(v):
>         return v
> 
> if  __name__ == '__main__':
>     gert = Test()
>     print gert.m1('1')
>     print Test.m2('2')
> 


Well, what do you think:
> In [9]: gert = Test()
> 
> In [10]:     print gert.m1('1')
>    ....:     print Test.m2('2')
>    ....: 
> 1
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>             Traceback (most recent call last)
> 
> /home/wildemar/<ipython console> in <module>()
> 
> <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: unbound method m2() must be called with Test instance as first argument (got str instance instead)

(Another hint: look at what m1 has that m2 lacks.)

/W