Nick Coghlan added the comment: Bound methods are created dynamically on lookup, while object ids may be reused after the original object is destroyed.
There's no bug here - just a combination of those two language behaviours that is frequently surprising to users that have just noticed it. There's not a lot we can do about that - it's a genuinely surprising moment in people's understanding of the way methods (and descriptors in general) work. ---------- nosy: +ncoghlan resolution: -> invalid stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15773> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com