[Python-Dev] lament for the demise of unbound methods

[Michael Foord]

On 5 Jul 2013, at 12:26, Łukasz Langa <lukasz at langa.pl> wrote:

> On 5 lip 2013, at 12:07, Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> 
>> I wonder why you need to figure out the signatures in advance.
>> Can you just wait until the function is actually used, and then
>> process the parameters as you get them?
>> 
> 
> My guess is that Michael's design lets mock objects be introspected as well, i.e. they don't appear as magical as they really are to the user code.
> 

This is also true. Doing it up front has some conveniences - for example dir(...) works correctly.

Michael

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