weak reference to bound method

Ole Streicher ole-usenet-spam at gmx.net
Fri Oct 2 06:10:19 EDT 2009


Hi Miles,

Miles Kaufmann <milesck at umich.edu> writes:
> You could also create a wrapper object that holds a weak reference to  the
> instance and creates a bound method on demand:
> class WeakMethod(object):
>     def __init__(self, bound_method):
>         self.im_func = bound_method.im_func
>         self.im_self = weakref.ref(bound_method.im_self)
>         self.im_class = bound_method.im_class

In this case, I can use it only for bound methods, so I would need to
handle the case of unbound methods separately.

Is there a way to find out whether a function is bound? Or do I have to
use hasattr(im_func) and hasattr(im_self) and hasattr(im_class)?

Best regards

Ole



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