[Python-Dev] Should we do away with unbound methods in Py3k? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Nov 23 07:57:07 CET 2007

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

If you are configuring it per-class and accessing it per-instance, and reusing an existing function, you have to make it a staticmethod.

I don't understand that. Can you provide an example?

> some subclasser later finds that he wants access to > 'self'?

Then he overrides it with a normal method.

If that works, I don't see why making the default method a normal method wouldn't work also.

-- Greg

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