On Mon, 4 Jul 2016 09:59 am, eryk sun wrote: > On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> > wrote: >> >> But if you prepare the method ahead of time, it works: >> >> from types import MethodType >> instance.method = MethodType(method, instance) > > That's a fine way to bind a method, but in the context of this > "descriptor land" topic, I think it's more insightful to call the > function's __get__ method:
Sure, so long as you remember that in real code you shouldn't be calling dunder methods directly. I don't know whether Python does any pre- or post-processing of a descriptor's __get__ method, but it could (if not now, but in the future). -- Steven “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
