castironpi wrote: > > The answer is fairly technical. For member functions to be bound to > instances, they are required to have a __get__ method (which takes > instance and owner as parameters). 'id' does not. > > (Why does 'id' not have a __get__ method?) > > By contrast, > >>>> set.add > <method 'add' of 'set' objects> >>>> dir(_) > ['__call__', '__class__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__get__', > '__getattribute__ > ', '__hash__', '__init__', '__name__', '__new__', '__objclass__', > '__reduce__', > '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__'] > > 'set.add' does.
Thank you for the quick response. However it gives me less hope that the little performance hack I had in mind will ever work. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
