Confused with methods

[John Lenton]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:24:11PM +0100, Alex Martelli wrote:
>                                                 def always produces a
> function object and binds it to the name coming after keyword 'def'.
> Any such function object, no matter how produced and how bound hither
> and thither, always behaves in exactly the same way.

This isn't exactly true:

    >>> class C(object):
    ...   def __new__(*a): pass
    ... 
    >>> C.__new__
    <function __new__ at 0x40088d4c>
    >>> class D(object): pass
    ... 
    >>> def __new__(*a): pass
    ... 
    >>> D.__new__ = __new__
    >>> D.__new__
    <unbound method D.__new__>

of course, __new__ is special-cased (*some*body should've read "import
this", especially the part "explicit is better than implicit").

-- 
John Lenton (john at grulic.org.ar) -- Random fortune:
Al freír será el reír. 
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