Documentation

In the tutorial "MyClass" class discussion, MyClass is defined as follows.

class MyClass:
    """A simple example class"""
    i = 12345

    def f(self):
        return 'hello world'

In the method object section, x.f() is said to be normally called after it is bound, however this statement ends in error, "Missing 1 required positional argument 'self'

Then it states the following script will repeat forever, however it gets the same error Missing 1 required positional argument 'self'

xf = x.f
while True:
    print(xf())

To fix the issue remove the "self" from method f() as below and everything works as intended.

    def f():
        return 'hello world'

Linked PRs

• gh-138011: Clarify tutorial method object example code #138014
• gh-138011: add note about instantiating MyClass with ( ) #138016
• [3.14] gh-138011: Clarify tutorial method object example code (GH-138014) #138025
• [3.13] gh-138011: Clarify tutorial method object example code (GH-138014) #138026