importing a method

[Alex Martelli]

Martin Miller <ggrp1.20.martineau at dfgh.net> wrote:

> I'd like to point out to the OP that using a function's __get__ method
> this way only works with new-style classes and their instances...not
> with the example in the shown in original post.

Uh, why not?

>>> class old: pass
... 
>>> def f(self): print self
... 
>>> o=old()
>>> o.z = f.__get__(o, old)
>>> o.z
<bound method old.f of <__main__.old instance at 0x53d78>>
>>> 

There's a million reason to avoid using old-style classes in new code,
but it doesn't seem to me that this is one of them.  What am I missing?


Alex