[Python-Dev] Getting rid of unbound methods: patch available
Nick Coghlan
ncoghlan at iinet.net.au
Tue Jan 18 03:46:03 EST 2005
Guido van Rossum wrote:
> What do people think? (My main motivation for this, as stated before,
> is that it adds complexity without much benefit.)
Something important that came up in my response to Marc-Andre:
What about C method implementations which are relying on this typecheck and
assuming that 'self' is (nearly) guaranteed to be of the correct type?
The string object implementation is where I noticed this assumption being made,
but I suspect it would be fairly widespread.
Obviously, use of im_func can break such code already, but that's a far cry from
having C.f skip the type check.
Cheers,
Nick.
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