Class/type unification and reference to unbound methods

[Thomas Heller]

[...]
>    class A:
>      def spam(self):
>        ...
>
>    class B(A):
>      def spam(self):
>        ...
>
>    class C(A):
>      def spam(self):
>        ...
>
>    class D(B, C):
>      spam = C.spam
>
> This is akin to feature renaming as supported by Eiffel and comes in
> handy when one class is found in the inheritance chain repeatedly.
> Such renaming also is useful with extensive use of mixins.

IMO the above would continue to work even if C.spam would be a function
instead of a bound method. Today it would look like this:

class D(B, C):
  spam = C.spam.im_func

(Although the above looks somewhat strange to me...)
Thomas