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[Marko Rauhamaa]

Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>:

> Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> For (almost) all practical purposes, that is the Python way as well. If
>> object instantiation (conceptually) copied the class's methods into the
>> object's dict, you'd get the semantics I'm looking for.
>
> If things worked the way you want, it would be impossible to store a
> function in an instance attribute and get it out again *without* it
> being treated as a method and getting 'self' added to its arguments.
> That would be a considerable nuisance when dealing with callbacks and
> the like.

Sorry, you'll have to elaborate. I don't quite follow you.

Right now Python generates the trampoline from the class prototype every
time you call a method. If the semantics allowed, you could create the
trampoline at instantiation time (for better or worse). That way, the
problem you seem to be referring to wouldn't materialize.


Marko