From 6ef0f656da9a9e8ec2b0cd3002551e961cf176aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: CHINMAY <89741289+Das-Chinmay@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:42:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] gh-72088: clarify inspect.ismethod returns False for
 class-level access

Accessing a method through the class returns a plain function, not a
bound method, so ismethod() returns False in that case.  Add a note
and a cross-reference to the 'instance methods' section of the data
model reference to explain this.
---
 Doc/library/inspect.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/library/inspect.rst b/Doc/library/inspect.rst
index ff893a4513926a..5b47d80de9c20b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/inspect.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/inspect.rst
@@ -425,6 +425,11 @@ attributes (see :ref:`import-mod-attrs` for module attributes):
 
    Return ``True`` if the object is a bound method written in Python.
 
+   Note that accessing a method through the class (rather than an instance)
+   returns a plain :term:`function`, not a bound method, so :func:`ismethod`
+   will return ``False`` in that case.  See :ref:`instance-methods` in the
+   language reference for details.
+
 
 .. function:: ispackage(object)