# HG changeset patch
# User wheerd <admin@wheerd.de>
# Date 1485500891 -3600
#      Fri Jan 27 08:08:11 2017 +0100
# Node ID 541d949460b5a1bd4474ea504f284d9ecc3bb48d
# Parent  34fb29694c7640ad3718adcb7756f05b29070da6
Added SlotWrapperType and MethodWrapperType to the types module.

diff -r 34fb29694c76 -r 541d949460b5 Doc/library/types.rst
--- a/Doc/library/types.rst	Wed Jan 25 23:35:46 2017 -0800
+++ b/Doc/library/types.rst	Fri Jan 27 08:08:11 2017 +0100
@@ -132,6 +132,13 @@
    C".)
 
 
+.. data:: SlotWrapperType
+          MethodWrapperType
+
+   The type of methods of some fundamental built-in data types and base classes (such as :meth:`object.__init__` or `object.__lt__`).
+   The second one is the type of these methods once they are bound to an instance.
+
+
 .. class:: ModuleType(name, doc=None)
 
    The type of :term:`modules <module>`. Constructor takes the name of the
diff -r 34fb29694c76 -r 541d949460b5 Lib/test/test_types.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_types.py	Wed Jan 25 23:35:46 2017 -0800
+++ b/Lib/test/test_types.py	Fri Jan 27 08:08:11 2017 +0100
@@ -575,6 +575,10 @@
     def test_internal_sizes(self):
         self.assertGreater(object.__basicsize__, 0)
         self.assertGreater(tuple.__itemsize__, 0)
+        
+    def test_slot_wrapper_types(self):
+        self.assertIsInstance(int.__lt__, types.SlotWrapperType)
+        self.assertIsInstance((42).__lt__, types.MethodWrapperType)
 
 
 class MappingProxyTests(unittest.TestCase):
diff -r 34fb29694c76 -r 541d949460b5 Lib/types.py
--- a/Lib/types.py	Wed Jan 25 23:35:46 2017 -0800
+++ b/Lib/types.py	Fri Jan 27 08:08:11 2017 +0100
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@
 BuiltinFunctionType = type(len)
 BuiltinMethodType = type([].append)     # Same as BuiltinFunctionType
 
+SlotWrapperType = type(object.__init__)
+MethodWrapperType = type(object().__str__)
+
 ModuleType = type(sys)
 
 try: