bound and unbound methods in Python

bound-unbound.txt

$ python
Python 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56) 
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> class C:
...   def __init__(self, name):
...     self.name = name
...   def foo(self):
...     print self.name
... 
>>> C.foo
<unbound method C.foo>
>>> C.foo.__get__(C('arnsholt'))
<bound method ?.foo of <__main__.C instance at 0x7f0f5d1037e8>>
>>> C.foo.__get__(C('arnsholt'))()
arnsholt
>>>