Guido van Rossum wrote: > Like 'len', right? Yes, anything that's a stand-alone function rather than a method of some C type.
> Couldn't PyRex define its own type for its functions that has a > __get__ descriptor with the appropriate semantics? Yes, it could, but it would be more run-time support baggage to carry around in every Pyrex module that used it (there's currently no mechanism for different Pyrex modules to share runtime support code). It would be tidier if the existing builtin function type had the desired behaviour, that's all. I can't imagine there would be much in the way of existing code that would be affected by this. It would have to be putting a builtin function into a class, and then retrieving it via an instance and expecting it to come back as a plain function. But in any case, the impact on existing code could be reduced to zero by having a flag in the method descriptor to enable this behaviour. It would only be turned on for functions that really need it. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
