On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk>wrote:
> On 04/07/2013 12:59, Christian Heimes wrote: > >> Am 04.07.2013 13:21, schrieb Chris Withers: >> >>> There doesn't appear to be any way in Python 3 to do this, which is a >>> little surprising and frustrating... >>> >>> What am I missing here? >>> >> >> I removed unbound methods almost six years ago: >> >> http://hg.python.org/cpython/**rev/48af6375207e<http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/48af6375207e> >> > > Not disputing when it happened, more the why... > > ...the recommended change doesn't work, for obvious reasons: > > >>> MyClass.method.__self__.__**class__ > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<console>", line 1, in <module> > AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute '__self__' > > The loss of the ability to figure out the class from an unbound method > seems quite an annoying step back from an introspection point of view. > It's only annoying if you take the perspective that methods are somehow special compared to functions. With the removal of bound class methods that makes methods == functions that are an attribute on a class. And when you take that perspective it makes having anything special about methods seem wrong. It also makes adding a function to a class post-class creation make more sense since there is no difference technically.
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