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Oh, sorry, I think I got that a bit wrong.  The issue is more with 
bound/unbound methods -- given 

class O(object):
 def __repr__(self):
   ...

should O.__repr__ be a bound method (O is an instance of type) 
or an unbound method so O.__repr__(O()) does what you expect?

Python chooses the latter, but this means that you can't implement 
the builtin function repr as 

def repr(o):
    return o.__repr__()

Hope this helps, a little at least.