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Subject: Arbitrary dunder attributes (was Re: odd difference calling function from class or instance variable)
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 7:06 PM, GregS <not@my.real.address.com> wrote:
> When I assign the reference as a class variable, the reference has __self__
> set, too, so I get an extra argument passed to the function.  If I assign
> the reference as an instance variable, then __self__ is unset so no extra
> argument.

Spin-off from Greg's thread.

The bound method object stores a reference to the original object (the
thing that becomes the first argument to the target function) in
__self__ (and the function in __func__). ISTM this ought to be _self
(and _func), as it's intended to be private; is it really something
that has language-level significance on par with __lt__ and so on?

ChrisA