The logging module taught me something today about the difference of a
function defined in C and a function defined in Python::
import importlib
class Base:
def imp(self, name):
return self.import_(name)
class CVersion(Base):
import_ = __import__
class PyVersion(Base):
import_ = importlib.__import__
CFunction().imp('tokenize')
PyFunction().imp('tokenize') # Fails!
Turns out the use of __import__ works while the importlib version
fails. Why does importlib fail? Because the first argument to the
importlib.__import__ function is an instance of PyVersion, not a
string. And yet the __import__ version works as if the self argument
is never passed to it!
This "magical" ignoring of self seems to extend to any PyCFunction. Is
this dichotomy intentional or just a "fluke"? Maybe this is a
hold-over from before we had descriptors and staticmethod, but now
that we have these things perhaps this difference should go away.
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