On Jan 17, 2005, at 18:33, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:

It's not the strongest use-case in the world, but is the impetus to
remove unbound method objects from Python that much stronger? I like
the fact that it's simpler, but it's a small amount of extra simplicity,
it doesn't seem to enable any new use-cases, and it breaks the potential
for serialization.

Well, it lets you meaningfully do:

class Foo:
    def someMethod(self):
        pass

class Bar:
    someMethod = Foo.someMethod

Where now you have to do:

class Bar:
    someMethod = Foo.someMethod.im_func

I'm not sure how useful this actually is, though.

-bob

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