Message1850

When a method is reflected from a class without making 
an instance of that class, the type of the method is 'method' for methods from Python classes and 'reflectedfunction' for methods from Java classes.


Jython 2.2rc3 on java1.6.0_01
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>>> from java.lang import String
>>> type(String.indexOf), type(String().indexOf)
(<type 'reflectedfunction'>, <type 'method'>)
>>> from urllib import URLopener
>>> type(URLopener.open_http),type(URLopener().open_http)
(<type 'method'>, <type 'method'>)

And in Python:
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 18 2007, 16:56:43) 
[GCC 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)] on cygwin
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>>> from urllib import URLopener
>>> type(URLopener.open_http), type(URLopener().open_http)
(<type 'instancemethod'>, <type 'instancemethod'>)
>>>