[Python-Dev] method decorators (PEP 318) (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Mar 28 23:33:15 EST 2004


Dave Harrison <dave at nullcube.com>:

> and wouldn't bother with staticmethods at all. How often do you > actually need a staticmethod in particular and not a classmethod?

It's quite useful to be able to develop, essentially stateless, static method utility libraries that dont need to be class based. Why create

I'm not sure I understand. Why not make them module-level functions?

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