The devel-docs tell me about METH_CLASS:
The method will be passed the type object as the first parameter rather than an instance of the type. This is used to create class methods, similar to what is created when using the classmethod() built-in function. New in version 2.3.
1. This seems wrong. The first parameter the function receives is NULL, the type object goes together with the remaining arguments in the second parameter (which is a tuple).
Is the documentation wrong, or is the code wrong (I didn't find any use of METH_CLASS in the CVS sources)?
I'll leave this for Fred to answer, since he implemented this.
If there is still a choice, I would prefer that the docs are correct, and the code should be fixed. This would allow to use, for example, METH_O in the usual way: a function which receives one parameter (in addition to the type object passed implicitely). Thomas