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

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:56 AM 11/24/2007 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>Also, there was discussion of this before:
>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-January/050625.html
>-- why didn't we decide to do it then?

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-January/051236.html

There were also a few protests of use cases that could not be worked 
around (e.g. pickling methods), and a few people pointed out that the 
type checking actually *is* useful when using explicit base calls 
(BaseClass.somemethod(self,...)), as it usually catches when you 
forget to include the self argument.)

(Note that super() doesn't do away with the need for such explicit 
upcalls, especially in __init__, as multiple-inheriting classes with 
non-cooperative bases usually need to individually call the base 
class __init__ methods.)