[issue11704] functools.partial doesn't create bound methods

Nick Coghlan added the comment: With the introduction of functools.partialmethod in 3.4, marking this older docs issue as a "won't fix" -- resolution: -> wont fix stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed type: -> enhancement ___ Python

[issue11704] functools.partial doesn't create bound methods

Alex Gaynor added the comment: Indeed I completely missed the section at the bottom. A note in the above section would be a useful addition. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue11704] functools.partial doesn't create bound methods

Nick Coghlan added the comment: True, this could be documented better - flagging as a docs bug. (It is mentioned at the bottom of http://docs.python.org/library/functools.html#partial-objects, but that could be referenced better from the main documentation of the function higher up in the pa

[issue11704] functools.partial doesn't create bound methods

New submission from Alex Gaynor : This is related to the discussion we had at the PyCon language summit about C vs Python function binding. If you create a partial instance and put it on a class it doesn't create bound instances. This behavior is a tad surprising in my view. At a minimum it