Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> And no, the fact that methods can be treated as attributes is not a
> minor detail. It is *fundamental* to Python's object model that
> *methods are not a special case of attribute access*. All attributes
> work the same way, it is just the way functions implement the
> descriptor protocol that makes instance methods behave the way they
> do.

Well put, Nick.  This paragraph is a good thing to read a couple of
times.

Bill
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