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

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Mar 29 01:26:13 EST 2004

Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu>:

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

Namespaces my friend, namespaces (I don't know if other people use this, but I have on occasion).

My point was, that in any likely use I can think of for staticmethods, it wouldn't do any harm to use a classmethod instead.

def makeallstatic(cls): for i,j in cls.dict.iteritems(): if isinstance(j, instancemethod) cls.dict[i] = staticmethod(j)

You'd still be able to do that, just as you'd still be able to use the old method of creating a staticmethod. There just wouldn't be any special syntax just for staticmethods analogous to the one I suggested for classmethods.

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