New submission from Thomas Wouters <tho...@python.org>:
As discussed at the language summit at PyCon 2011, some code takes some
liberties with setting class attributes to callable objects, like CFunctions,
that (C)Python does not turn into methods. This is problematic because 1)
CPython can't then turn that CFunction into a regular function, and 2) other
implementations have to specialcase the builtins to emulate the behaviour.
This patch adds a warning when a non-descriptor, non-class callable attribute
is accessed in a context that would have fired the descriptor. It also fixes a
bunch of these warnings that show up when running the testsuite. Some of these
warnings are obviously (to me) incorrect code -- like the io testsuite, which
uses staticmethod around pyio.open but not io.open, or the encoding classes
that use an encode function from an extension module as a class attribute. Some
of the warnings are debatable, but have an obvious fix (wrap in staticmethod.)
Some could be considered false-positives because they actually use (what
amounts to) a a bound instance method as a class attribute (for example,
re.compile('...').match.)
The patch is still a work in progress, I'm just uploading to start the
discussion sooner rather than later.
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components: Interpreter Core
files: nonmethod-warn.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 130606
nosy: twouters
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Flag inappropriate uses of callable class attributes
type: feature request
versions: Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file21085/nonmethod-warn.diff
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