Differences between Methods and functions

[Aahz]

In article <3e1328fe$0$11376$626a54ce at news.free.fr>,
adfgvx <adfgvx at free.fr> wrote:
>
>I have noticed a strange thing (for me). I have written a function that
>recursively walk throught a tree produced by the pyRXP XML parser.
>Everything is ok, fast and produces good result.
>
>I transformed it a little (just add self. !) to include it in an object as a
>method (still recursive) but now the walk is very much slower (about 100
>times !!).
>I don't understand why !

Please post your code.
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