Message 149302 - Python tracker

> - apparently you forgot to add BuiltinFunctionPropertiesTest in 
> test_main()?

Yes.  Fixed.

> - a static method keeps a reference to the type: I think it's ok, although 
> I'm not sure about the consequences (Guido, would you have an idea?)

Interestingly, in the stdlib METH_STATIC is only used by (str|bytes|bytearray).maketrans and _multiprocessing.win32.*.