Looking at the history of the dis module, I'd now class this as a bug fix for 3.5+ - it looks like dis.dis gained the ability to disassemble static and class methods as a side-effect of the removal of bound methods in Python 3 (see https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/48af6375207e ) but because it was a side effect, the additional changes needed to also handle them when disassembling a class were missed.