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Re: How to decide if a object is instancemethod?

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Jon Clements <joncle@googlemail.com> writes:

> import inspect
> if inspect.ismethod(foo):
>    # ...
>
> Will return True if foo is a bound method.

But under what other conditions will it return True? The name suggests
that *any* method – static method, class method, bound method, unbound
method – will also result in True.

The documentation says only “instance method”, though. Confusing :-(

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How to decide if a object is instancemethod? Cosmia Luna <cosmius@gmail.com> - 2012-03-14 06:28 -0700
  Re: How to decide if a object is instancemethod? Jon Clements <joncle@googlemail.com> - 2012-03-14 06:57 -0700
    Re: How to decide if a object is instancemethod? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-03-15 08:26 +1100
      Re: How to decide if a object is instancemethod? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-03-14 23:30 +0000
    Re: How to decide if a object is instancemethod? Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2012-03-26 11:44 +0200

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