new.instancemethod

[Alex Martelli]

<James_Althoff at i2.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.989526615.24388.python-list at python.org...
>
> Does anyone know what the "class" argument -- arg 3 -- to
> new.instancemethod is for?
>
> >>> new.instancemethod.__doc__
> 'Create a instance method object from (FUNCTION, INSTANCE, CLASS).'

>>> import new
>>> def f(self): print self
...
>>> class X: pass
...
>>> met=new.instancemethod(f,None,X)
>>> met
<unbound method X.f>
>>>


Alex