Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:56:55 +1200: >... > I have suggested that builtin functions should be > given the same method-binding behaviour as interpreted > functions. The idea wasn't rejected out of hand, but > I don't think anything has been done about it yet.
You can use: def wrapAsMethod(to_be_wrapped) def wrapped(*args, **kw): return to_be_wrapper(*args, **kw) return wrapped and then use in your class: class ...: ... myMethod = wrapAsMethod(builtin_function) Such, this use case probably does not require a language change. Dieter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list