[Python-3000] A plus for naked unbound methods

[Terry Reedy]

Mark Seaborn wrote:
> Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I have seen a couple of objections to leaving unbound methods naked (as 
>> functions) when retrieved in 3.0.  Here is a plus.
>>
>> A c.l.p poster reported that 2.6 broke his code because the addition of 
>> default rich comparisons to object turned tests like hassattr(ob, 
>> '__lt__') from False to True.
> 
> For the record, the post is:
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-October/510540.html
> 
>> The obvious fix ob.__lt__ == object.__lt__ does not work because
>> wrapping makes it always False, even when conceptually true.  In
>> 3.0, that equality test works.  (I pointed him to 'object' in
>> repr(ob.__lt__) as a workaround.  Others posted others.)
> 
> Assuming ob is an instance object,

It was a class derived from object.  I should have made that clearer.