Alberja Verde's questions

I have a question about methods in python. According to the Python documentation on the special attribute __dict__:

A dictionary or other mapping object used to store an object's (writable) attributes .

Translation:

A dictionary or other mapping object used to store the (write) attributes of an object.

In a nutshell the attribute __dict__stores the attributes of an object.

When creating, for example, the following class:

>>> class A:
...    a = 1
...
...    def method(self):
...        print('method')
...
...
>>> A.__dict__
{'__module__': '__main__', 'a': 1, 'method': <function A.method at 0x7f4b2e802950>, '__dict__': <attribute '__dict__' of 'A' objects>, '__weakref__': <attribute '__weakref__' of 'A' objects>, '__doc__': None}

You can see that the "method" methodis in __dict__the class, as well as the attribute a.

According to the python documentation, __dict__it stores the attributes of an object (it should be noted that a class is an object). So a method is actually an attribute?

Could it be said that it methodis an attribute that stores a function? But at no time did I do something like this:

def funcion(self):
    print(self.a)

class A:
    a = 1
    method = funcion

print(A().method())

In addition to that it works and the function functionreceives as first parameter ( self), the instance, printing 1as result.

Here another question arises, the attribute methodthat I define in the class A( method = funcion), is it a method?

So what exactly is a method in python?

It would be of great help if you could clarify this doubt that I have, thanks for your answers.