Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (BF) wrote: > >>BF> The latter two statements are equivalent. The >>'instance.method(args)' BF> syntax is just sugar for >>'Class.method(instance, args)'. > > It is more than just syntactic sugar because the Class is derived from > the instance at runtime.
Other differences that mean it isn't just sugar: you can save the bound method created by 'instance.method' but not with the expanded version. The equivalence depends on the type of 'method', other expansions are possible: e.g. Class.method(Class, args) or Class.method(args) or invent your own. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
