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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:44:56 -0400
Subject: Re: default repr?
To: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>> Not quite: they have to be an instance of that class.
----8<----
> Hmm. I would have thought that methods were like all other functions:
> they take their arguments and do code with them. Duck typing and all.
> I stand corrected, then.

On Python 3 you are correct.

>>> class A:
...     def print(self):
...             print(self)
...
>>> A.print(2)
2

-- Devin