[Python-Dev] Making staticmethod objects callable? (original) (raw)

Nicolas Fleury nidoizo at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 16 06:10:57 CET 2006

Armin Rigo wrote:

Hi Nicolas,

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 01:55:03AM -0500, Nicolas Fleury wrote: (...) A use case is not hard to imagine, especially a private static method called only to build a class attribute. Uh. I do this all the time, and the answer is simply: don't make that a staticmethod. Staticmethods are for the rare case where you need dynamic class-based dispatch but don't have an instance around.

I think we all agree on this list that there's no point using a staticmethod for that use case. My suggestion was for some comp.lang.python people, a lot coming from other languages. Their reflex would be much more to define a staticmethod. This issue has been pointed a lot of times on comp.lang.python.

Regards, Nicolas

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