Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Both K.f and K.g are methods, even though only one meets the definition
given in the glossary. The glossary is wrong.
Or rather, it is not so much that it is *wrong*, but that it is incomplete
and over-simplified.
I agree with that; a more complete definition would be
"a function that is found in a class as a result of an
attribute lookup on an instance of that class".
I defined a method:
py> from types import MethodType
py> type(instance.f) is MethodType
True
Being of type MethodType is not the defining characterisic
of a method. MethodType is actually misnamed; an instance
of MethodType is *not* a method, in the same way that an
eggcup is not an egg.
A better name would be MethodWrapper, but that still
doesn't mean that anything you wrap with it is a method.
An eggcup *usually* contains an egg, but it could
contain something else.
instance.f is a method by the glossary definition.
Not by the glossary definition as written, since the
function you wrapped in a MethodType was not defined
inside a class body.
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