Colin J. Williams wrote:
>>
>> def fun( ., cat):
>>
> I don't see the need for the comma in fun.
It (the entire first variable!) is needed because a method object is
constructed from a normal function object:
def method(self,a,b):
pass
class MyClass(object):
pass
MyClass.testmethod=method
That's precisely the same as if you'd defined method inside of the class
to begin with. A function becomes a method when the lookup procedure in
the instance object looks up the attribute and returns (from what I
understand) essentially a closure that binds the instance to the first
variable of the function. The result is known as a bound method, which
is a callable object:
>>> instance=MyClass()
>>> instance.testmethod
<bound method MyClass.testmethod of <__main__.instance object at xxx>>
How would this work if there was not first parameter at all?
In short, unlike what most of the implicit self advocates are saying,
it's not just a simple change to the python parser to do this. It would
require a change in the interpreter itself and how it deals with classes.
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