On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 18:30, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> > wrote: >> 2010/6/11 Brett Cannon <br...@python.org>: >>> 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. >> >> There are several open feature requests about this. It is merely >> because PyCFunction does not implement __get__. > > Yeah, but this of course is because before descriptors only Python > functions were special-cased as methods, and there was known code that > depended on this. I'm sure there's even more code that depends on this > today (because there is just more code, period :-). > > Maybe we could offer a decorator that adds a __get__ to a PyCFunction though.
Well, staticmethod seems to work just as well. I'm going to make this my first request for what to change in Py4K. =) -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
