[Python-Dev] Should we do away with unbound methods in Py3k?

[Christian Heimes]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> It looks like we're in agreement to drop unbound methods and have a
> reasonable set or arguments around it (e.g. keep staticmethod, no
> changes to methods of builtin types, etc.). Do we need a PEP? It's
> essentially a 2-line change in funcobject.c (func_descr_get()) -- plus
> fixing up half a dozen or so unittests that specifically seem to test
> the behavior of unbound methods.

I'd like to help but after staring at the code for 10 minutes I still
don't get how the descriptor function should be altered. Can you please
give an example to a mer mortal? :)

Christian