Ivan Pozdeev via Python-ideas wrote:
I needed to hold an external function reference in an object instance (if I assigned it to an attribute, it was converted into an instance method).
No, that only happens to functions stored in *class* attributes, not instance attributes. >>> class A: ... pass ... >>> a = A() >>> >>> def f(): ... print("I'm just a function") ... >>> a.x = f >>> a.x() I'm just a function -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/