gh-140873: Add support of non-descriptor callables in functools.singledispatchmethod()

Doc/library/functools.rst

@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ The :mod:`functools` module defines the following functions:
    dispatch>` :term:`generic function`.
 
    To define a generic method, decorate it with the ``@singledispatchmethod``
-   decorator. When defining a function using ``@singledispatchmethod``, note
+   decorator. When defining a method using ``@singledispatchmethod``, note
    that the dispatch happens on the type of the first non-*self* or non-*cls*
    argument::
 
@@ -716,6 +716,9 @@ The :mod:`functools` module defines the following functions:
 
    .. versionadded:: 3.8
 
+   .. versionchanged:: next
+      Added support of non-:term:`descriptor` callables.
+
 
 .. function:: update_wrapper(wrapper, wrapped, assigned=WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS, updated=WRAPPER_UPDATES)
 

Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst

@@ -393,6 +393,14 @@ difflib
   (Contributed by Jiahao Li in :gh:`134580`.)
 
 
+functools
+---------
+
+* :func:`~functools.singledispatchmethod` now supports non-:term:`descriptor`
+  callables.
+  (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :gh:`140873`.)
+
+
 hashlib
 -------
 

Lib/functools.py

@@ -1083,7 +1083,10 @@ def __call__(self, /, *args, **kwargs):
                                'singledispatchmethod method')
             raise TypeError(f'{funcname} requires at least '
                             '1 positional argument')
-        return self._dispatch(args[0].__class__).__get__(self._obj, self._cls)(*args, **kwargs)
+        method = self._dispatch(args[0].__class__)
+        if hasattr(method, "__get__"):
+            method = method.__get__(self._obj, self._cls)
+        return method(*args, **kwargs)
 
     def __getattr__(self, name):
         # Resolve these attributes lazily to speed up creation of

Lib/test/test_functools.py

@@ -2785,7 +2785,7 @@ class Slot:
             @functools.singledispatchmethod
             @classmethod
             def go(cls, item, arg):
-                pass
+                return item - arg
 
             @go.register
             @classmethod
@@ -2794,7 +2794,9 @@ def _(cls, item: int, arg):
 
         s = Slot()
         self.assertEqual(s.go(1, 1), 2)
+        self.assertEqual(s.go(1.5, 1), 0.5)
         self.assertEqual(Slot.go(1, 1), 2)
+        self.assertEqual(Slot.go(1.5, 1), 0.5)
 
     def test_staticmethod_slotted_class(self):
         class A:
@@ -3485,6 +3487,23 @@ def _(item, arg: bytes) -> str:
         self.assertEqual(str(Signature.from_callable(A.static_func)),
                          '(item, arg: int) -> str')
 
+    def test_method_non_descriptor(self):
+        class Callable:
+            def __init__(self, value):
+                self.value = value
+            def __call__(self, arg):
+                return self.value, arg
+
+        class A:
+            t = functools.singledispatchmethod(Callable('general'))
+            t.register(int, Callable('special'))
+
+        a = A()
+        self.assertEqual(a.t(0), ('special', 0))
+        self.assertEqual(a.t(2.5), ('general', 2.5))
+        self.assertEqual(A.t(0), ('special', 0))
+        self.assertEqual(A.t(2.5), ('general', 2.5))
+
 
 class CachedCostItem:
     _cost = 1

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-11-01-14-44-09.gh-issue-140873.kfuc9B.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Add support of non-:term:`descriptor` callables in
+:func:`functools.singledispatchmethod`.