[docs] [issue27901] inspect.ismethod returns different results on the same basic code between Python2.7 Python3.5

[Anthony Flury]

Anthony Flury added the comment:

Assuming the reader knows the details of how Python works is not a great assumption when those documents are being used (by the most part) by people like me who are reasonable developers but who don't know, and for most cases don't care about the internals of Python.

The inspect library is a bit different I conceed, as the user is starting to poke under the belly of the beast as it were, but i do think it would be useful to link from Inspect to the data model docs, were the terminology is discussed in more detail.

If I had tried to port my existing code to Python3.5, and it would have failed it's test set at this point - I don't think that the inspect library docs as they are would have helped.

I know inspect is deliving into the internals - but for most people a block of code within a def block within a class definition is a method - that is what everyone refers to them - even though internally they aren't bound, and aren't 'methods' strictly speaking - I think the docs should try to bridge the gap between common (non expert) language and the correct language terminology where neccessary

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