Michael Rudolf a écrit : > Out of curiosity I tried this and it actually worked as expected: > >>>> class T(object): > x=[] > foo=x.append > def f(self): > return self.x > > >>>> t=T() >>>> t.f() > [] >>>> T.foo(1) >>>> t.f() > [1] >>>> > > At first I thought "hehe, always fun to play around with python. Might > be useful sometimes" - but then It really confused me what I did. I > mean: f is what we call a method, right?
Wrong. It's a function. T.f is an unbound method (in python 2.x at least) and t.f is a bound method. > But was is foo? A bound method. Bound to x, of course. > It is not a > method and not a classmethod as it accepts no self and no cls. Yes it does. Else how would t.foo(4) (or T.foo(4)) append 4 to x ? > Perhaps this all does not matter, It does. > but now I am really confused about the > terminology. So: what makes a method a method? The right question is: what makes a function a method !-) > And of what type? Answer here: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/tree/browse_frm/thread/bd71264b6022765c/3a77541bf9d6617d#doc_89d608d0854dada0 I really have to put this in the wiki :-/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
