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Thank you David,

<p>But isn't this going to mess up the overloading?

<br>I also don't know how to create overloaded staticmethods in python.

<p>Nikolay

<p>David Abrahams wrote:

<blockquote TYPE=CITE>This is not the strategy I would've taken.&nbsp;

I think you should do

<br>something which mirrors pure Python:

<p>def foo(object):

<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; def f(x,y):

<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; return x*y

<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; f = staticmethod(f)

<p>So in C++, it would be something like:

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; class_&lt;foo>("foo")

<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .def("f", &amp;foo::f)

<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .staticmethod("f")&nbsp;

// **

<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ;

<p>Where the marked line would be implemented something like this:

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; self&amp; staticmethod(char const* name)

<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; {

<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; this->attr(name) = object(handle&lt;>(

<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

PyStaticMethod_New(this->attr(name).ptr())

<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

));

<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; }

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<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

David Abrahams

<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; dave@boost-consulting.com * <a href="http://www.boost-consulting.com">http://www.boost-consulting.com</a>

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