How work pre-defined descriptors in functions?

Question

Python functions have a descriptors. I believe that in most cases I shouldn\'t use this directly but I want to know how works this feature? I tried a couple of manipulations

Answer 1

a.__get__ is a way to bind a function to an object. Thus:

class C(object):
    pass

def a(s):
    return 12

a = a.__get__(C)

is the rough equivalent of

class C(object):
    def a(self):
        return 12

(Though it's not a good idea to do it this way. For one thing, C won't know that it has a bound method called a, which you can confirm by doing dir(C). Basically, the __get__ does just one part of the process of binding).

That's why you can't do this for a function that takes no arguments- it must take that first argument (traditionally self) that passes the specific instance.