On Jan 4, 2005, at 6:01 PM, Jack Jansen wrote:
On 4-jan-05, at 19:28, Guido van Rossum wrote:The extra type checking on the first argument that unbound methods are supposed to provide is not useful in practice (I can't remember that it ever caught a bug in my code)
It caught bugs for me a couple of times. If I remember correctly I was calling methods of something that was supposed to be a mixin class but I forgot to actually list the mixin as a base. But I don't think that's a serious enough issue alone to keep the unbound method type.
But I'm more worried about losing the other information in an unbound method, specifically im_class. I would guess that info is useful to class browsers and such, or are there other ways to get at that?
For a class browser, presumably, you would start at the class and then find the methods. Starting from some class and walking the mro, you can inspect the dicts along the way and you'll find everything and know where it came from.
-bob
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