[Python-Dev] Are PyCFunctions supposed to invisibly consume self when used as a method?

[Benjamin Peterson]

2010/6/11 Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>:
> This "magical" ignoring of self seems to extend to any PyCFunction. Is
> this dichotomy intentional or just a "fluke"? Maybe this is a
> hold-over from before we had descriptors and staticmethod, but now
> that we have these things perhaps this difference should go away.

There are several open feature requests about this. It is merely
because PyCFunction does not implement __get__.



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Regards,
Benjamin