types.UnboundMethodType is types.MethodType

[Carlos Ribeiro]

Just curious. I was trying to test for a class method in some code of
mine, and stumbled on a few things that I really could not understand:

# C is a class, m is a class method
>>> c.m
<bound method C.m of <__main__.C instance at 0x0120E350>>
>>> isinstance(c.m, types.UnboundMethodType)
True
# C is a class, cm is a class method
>>> C.cm
<bound method classobj.cm of <class __main__.C at 0x0120D870>>
>>> isinstance(C.cx, types.UnboundMethodType)
True
>>> types.UnboundMethodType is types.MethodType
True
>>> types.UnboundMethodType, types.MethodType
(<type 'instancemethod'>, <type 'instancemethod'>)
>>> id(types.UnboundMethodType), id(types.MethodType)
(504034256, 504034256)

I don't get it. Why to have two different identifiers that are in fact the same?

BTW - That's my Python version:
>>> sys.version
'2.3.2 (#49, Nov 13 2003, 10:34:54) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)]'
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