Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Feb 3 16:12:59 EST 2015

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Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> For (almost) all practical purposes, that is the Python way as well. If
> object instantiation (conceptually) copied the class's methods into the
> object's dict, you'd get the semantics I'm looking for.

If things worked the way you want, it would be
impossible to store a function in an instance
attribute and get it out again *without* it
being treated as a method and getting 'self'
added to its arguments. That would be a
considerable nuisance when dealing with
callbacks and the like.

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Greg

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