Python Quirks

List of many of the quirks that are needed for Pythons black magic:

name mangling: http://docs.python.org/reference/expressions.html#atom-identifiers

    >>> class Class(object):
    ...   pass
    ...
    >>> def foo(self):
    ...   return self
    ...
    >>> o = Class()
    >>> Class.foo = foo
    >>> print type(foo), type(Class.foo), type(o.foo)
    <type 'function'> <type 'instancemethod'> <type 'instancemethod'>
    >>> print foo, Class.foo, o.foo
    <function foo at 0x02331330> <unbound method Class.foo> <bound method Class.foo of <__main__.Class object at 0x01DDF670>>
    >>> foo("Hello World")
    'Hello World'
    >>> Class.foo()
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    TypeError: unbound method foo() must be called with Class instance as first argument (got nothing instead)
    >>> o.foo()
    <__main__.Class object at 0x01DDF670>