[Python-Dev] PEP 362 minor nits (original) (raw)

Yury Selivanov yselivanov.ml at gmail.com
Wed Jun 20 02:11:26 CEST 2012

On 2012-06-19, at 4:17 PM, Jim Jewett wrote:

I can tweak the PEP to make it more clear for those who don't know that staticmethods are not exactly methods, but do we really need that? I would prefer it, if only because it surprised me. When do distinguish between methods, staticmethod isn't usually the odd man out. And I also agree that the implementation doesn't need to change (except to add a comment), only the PEP.

Actually, it appears we don't need those special checks (for classmethod and staticmethod) at all.

  class Foo:
      @staticmethod
      def bar(): pass

  >>> Foo.bar
  <function bar ...>

  >>> Foo().bar
  <function bar ...>

  >>> Foo.__dict__['bar']
  <staticmethod ...>

So using the signature will be OK for 'Foo.bar' and 'Foo().bar', but not for 'Foo.dict['bar']' - which I think is fine (since staticmethod & classmethod instances are not callable)

I'll just remove checks for static- and class-methods from the PEP signature() algorithm section.

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