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Message: [QUOTE="Luke, post: 1861815"] Built-in functions don't bind to classes like regular functions. Is this intended? (I do notice that the Python Reference Manual sec 3.2 under "Class Instance" refers to a "user-defined function"). Any ideas what the reason is for this distinction between build-in functions and normal functions? It's rather inconvenient when implementing some methods (not the whole class) in a C extension :-( $ python Python 2.4.2 (#1, Nov 3 2005, 12:41:57) [GCC 3.4.3-20050110 (Gentoo Linux 3.4.3.20050110, ssp-3.4.3.20050110-0, pie-8.7 on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information..... return x ........ a = normal_func .... b = lambda x : x .... c = abs ....<built-in function abs> [/QUOTE]