Op 2005-02-18, Diez B. Roggisch schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> This is badly wrong. John was correct. >> >> Bound methods get created whenever you reference a method of an instance. >> If you are calling the method then the bound method is destroyed as soon >> as the call returns. You can have as many different bound methods created >> from the same unbound method and the same instance as you want: > > That did escape me so far - interesting. Why is it that way? I'd expect that > creating a bound method from the class and then storing it in the objects > dictionary is what happens. >
No. What happens is that functions are descriptors. So if you assign a function to a class attribute any access to this attribute will call the __get__ method which will create a bound method if the access was through an instance or an unbound method if the access was through the class. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
