Wouldn't it be nice if this worked?

[Suresh V.]

class A:
def add(self, x, y):
return x+y

class B:
pass

B.add = A.add

print B().add(1, 2) <----- gives TypeError: unbound method add() must
be called with A instance as first argument

 

[Stefan Behnel]

class A:
def add(self, x, y):
return x+y

class B:
pass

B.add = A.add

print B().add(1, 2) <----- gives TypeError: unbound method add() must
be called with A instance as first argument

Works for me:

Python 3.0b2 (r30b2:65080, Jul 20 2008, 20:03:32)
[GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. ... def add(self, x, y):
... return x+y
... ... pass
... 3

Stefan