More informative error messages (Re: [Python-Dev] Efficient predicates for the standard library)

Tue Oct 7 23:12:20 EDT 2003

> What should the error message be in this case?
>> class C:
> pass
>> def f(self, a): pass
>> C.f = f

I wouldn't mind if it reported f as a top-level function
in that case. It wouldn't be any worse than what happens now
if you do
 def f(a):
 pass
 g = f
 g()
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