[Python-Dev] lament for the demise of unbound methods

[Michael Foord]

On 5 Jul 2013, at 12:07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> Am 05.07.13 11:23, schrieb Michael Foord:
>> I've also lamented the death of bound methods in Python 3 for mock
>> "autospeccing". Autospec introspects objects and provides mock
>> objects with the same attributes - and with the same method
>> signatures.
> 
> I wonder why you need to figure out the signatures in advance.
> Can you just wait until the function is actually used, and then
> process the parameters as you get them?
> 

How does that solve the problem? Given a call and a reference to the original "function object" I need to know whether or not to trim the first argument from the original signature or not (remove self if the corresponding function object is actually a method).

Michael

> Regards,
> Martin


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