[Python-Dev] init_subclass is a class method (Was: Make class_getitem a class method) (original) (raw)

Serhiy Storchaka storchaka at gmail.com
Fri Dec 15 12:40:06 EST 2017


15.12.17 19:04, Ivan Levkivskyi пише:

Good point! Pure Python will be the primary use case and we have another precedent for "automatic" class method: initsubclass (it does not need to be decorated).

init_subclass is very different beast, and parallels with it can be confusing. It is automatically decorated with classmethod if it is a regular function implemented in C. The following two examples are totally equivalent:

class A: def init_subclass(cls): pass

class B: @classmethod def init_subclass(cls): pass

help(A) shows init_subclass() as a class method (in 3.7).

But if you implement the class in C you need to make init_subclass a class method.

I think init_subclass should be documented as a class method since it is a class method.



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