[Python-Dev] Getting rid of unbound methods: patch available

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 17, 2005, at 18:33, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:

> It's not the strongest use-case in the world, but is the impetus to
> remove unbound method objects from Python that much stronger?  I like
> the fact that it's simpler, but it's a small amount of extra 
> simplicity,
> it doesn't seem to enable any new use-cases, and it breaks the 
> potential
> for serialization.

Well, it lets you meaningfully do:

class Foo:
     def someMethod(self):
         pass

class Bar:
     someMethod = Foo.someMethod

Where now you have to do:

class Bar:
     someMethod = Foo.someMethod.im_func

I'm not sure how useful this actually is, though.

-bob