dunder-docs (was Python is DOOMED! Again!)
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Feb 3 18:41:39 EST 2015
On 03/02/2015 23:32, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>:
>
>> You seem to be suggesting an optimisation that pre-creates bound
>> methods when the instance is created. Keeping a cache of bound methods
>> would achieve the same thing without changing the semantics. I think
>> CPython might already be doing that, but I'm not sure.
>
> No, I'm saying Python should behave differently.
>
> Python:
>
> >>> class A:
> ... def f(self):
> ... print("f")
> ... def g(self):
> ... print("g")
> ...
> >>> a = A()
> >>> a.__class__.f = a.__class__.g
> >>> a.f()
> g
>
> In my preferred semantics, a.f() would print
>
> >>> a.f()
> f
IMHO as clear as mud.
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Mark Lawrence
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