On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> Methods are just functions, and you can call any method of any class >> with any object as its first parameter. > > Not quite: they have to be an instance of that class. > >> Though this mightn't work with everything. I wasn't able to paint a list >> as a tuple - "tuple.__repr__([1,2,3])" threw a TypeError. Oh well. >> There's a limit to the ways Python lets you shoot yourself in the foot. > > Of course -- [1,2,3] is not a tuple, so how would tuple know what to do > with it?
Hmm. I would have thought that methods were like all other functions: they take their arguments and do code with them. Duck typing and all. I stand corrected, then. In any case, it works fine for methods of object, at least with Python 3 and with new-style classes in Py2. (Other than backward compatibility with old code, is there any reason to use an old-style class?) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
