[Python-Dev] Adding types.build_class for 3.3 (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Wed May 9 11:05:01 CEST 2012

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:57:55AM +0100, Mark Shannon wrote:

As a consequence of this, making buildclass either a class method or a static method will cause a direct call to type.buildclass() to fail as neither class method nor static method are callable.

This might be a good reason to make them callable, especially staticmethod. I understand that at the language summit, this was considered a good idea:

http://python.6.n6.nabble.com/Callable-non-descriptor-class-attributes-td1884829.html

It certainly seems long overdue: confusion due to staticmethods not being callable go back a long time:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3932948/ http://grokbase.com/t/python/python-list/11bhhtv95y/staticmethod-makes-my-brain-hurt http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-August/272593.html

-- Steven

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