power of explicit self?

[Fire Crow]

> It's not implemented in the compiler. There's a place in the runtime
> for invoking a method where the object is inserted at the beginning
> of the parameter list. IIRC, that's done by wrapping the function
> object.

This is the source of Objects/methodobject.c it look like this is
where
self is added to the argument list, but I'll have to do some more
digging.
thanks for the tip.


 50 PyObject *
 51 PyCFunction_GetSelf(PyObject *op)
 52 {
 53     if (!PyCFunction_Check(op)) {
 54         PyErr_BadInternalCall();
 55         return NULL;
 56     }
 57     return ((PyCFunctionObject *)op) -> m_self;
 58 }
....
 69
 70 PyObject *
 71 PyCFunction_Call(PyObject *func, PyObject *arg, PyObject *kw)
 72 {
...
 75     PyObject *self = PyCFunction_GET_SELF(func);
...
 78     switch (PyCFunction_GET_FLAGS(func) & ~(METH_CLASS |
METH_STATIC |
METH_COEXIST)) {
 79     case METH_VARARGS:
 80         if (kw == NULL || PyDict_Size(kw) == 0)
 81             return (*meth)(self, arg);
 82         break;
 83     case METH_VARARGS | METH_KEYWORDS:
...
126 }