Attack a sacred Python Cow

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Torsten Bronger a écrit :
> Hallöchen!
> 
> Kay Schluehr writes:
> 
>> On 24 Jul., 11:40, Torsten Bronger <bron... at physik.rwth-aachen.de>
>> wrote:
>>> Bruno Desthuilliers writes:
>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> How would you handle this case with an implicit 'self' :
>>>>
>>>> class Foo(object):
>>>>    pass
>>>>
>>>> def bar(self):
>>>>    print self
>>>>
>>>> Foo.bar = bar
>>> Just like this.  However, the compiler could add "self" to
>>> non-decorated methods which are defined within "class".
>> And $self2, $self3, ... to the object methods of nested classes
>> and $cls2, $cls3, ... to the classmethods of those classes...?
> 
> One could surely find ways to realise this.  However, the design
> goal should be: Make the frequent case simple, and the rare case
> possible.

Given the (more and more prominent) use of decorators, metaclasses and 
other meta-programming techniques in Python, I'm not sure the cases 
where you really need access to Python's object model inners are that 
"rare". Not in my code at least.