Steven D'Aprano added the comment:
Be careful with the documentation patch. Although unbound method as an object
type is gone, unbound method as a concept is not.
Conceptually, something like ``MyClass.spam`` is an unbound method: it is a
method of the MyClass type, but bound to no instance. In Python 2 that concept
was implemented by MethodType. In Python 3, the concept is implemented by
FunctionType.
While it is certainly true from one perspective that unbound methods are
nothing but functions, it is nevertheless also sometimes useful to distinguish
from "functions defined in a class" (methods) and "other functions". I think
that nearly all Python programmers would be happy to call ``spam`` below:
class MyClass:
def spam(self, arg): ...
a method, even though it is also/really a function.
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nosy: +steven.daprano
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