[pypy-dev] Builtin-in functions

[holger krekel]

Hi Armin, 

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 19:02 +0100, Armin Rigo wrote:
> Builtin-in functions differ from Python function in that you can't bind the
> former as methods.  ... 
> 
> Samuele came up with a nice proposal: the attribute loading code of LazyModule
> (i.e. our internal modules) is a natural place to turn our functions into some
> kind of built-in functions.  ... 

Good idea!   

> The proposal is thus to wrap functions into a <type 'builtin_function'> which
> behaves mostly like the original one, but doesn't have a __get__().

And i see you already hacked this, nice. 

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cheers, 

    holger