I come to praise .join, not to bury it...

[Rainer Deyke]

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:9850ge013ns at news1.newsguy.com...
> in fact, just about any test for 'IS object X of exact type
> Y' you can find in the Python sources, unless they are
> shortcut-like 'accelerators' for a special case _before_
> the more-general request 'please o mr X try to behave like
> an Y, are you able to?', can be seen as implementation
> defects, in my personal opinion.

I'm curious: how do you feel about the automagic conversions of functions
(and only true function, not function-like objects) into unbound methods,
and from unbound methods into bound methods?  I'm thinking that the former
could be eliminated entirely, and the latter replaced by a __bind__ magic
method that allows the mechanism to apply to function-like objects.


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