[New-bugs-announce] [issue43682] Make function wrapped by staticmethod callable

STINNER Victor report at bugs.python.org
Wed Mar 31 10:31:21 EDT 2021


New submission from STINNER Victor <vstinner at python.org>:

Currently, static methods created by the @staticmethod decorator are not callable as regular function. Example:
---
@staticmethod
def func():
    print("my func")

class MyClass:
    method = func

func() # A: regular function
MyClass.method() # B: class method
MyClass().method() # C: instance method
---

The func() call raises TypeError('staticmethod' object is not callable) exception.

I propose to make staticmethod objects callable to get a similar to built-in function:
---
func = len

class MyClass:
    method = func

func("abc") # A: regular function
MyClass.method("abc") # B: class method
MyClass().method("abc") # C: instance method
---

The 3 variants (A, B, C) to call the built-in len() function work just as expected.

If static method objects become callable, the 3 variants (A, B, C) will just work.

It would avoid the hack like _pyio.Wrapper:
---
class DocDescriptor:
    """Helper for builtins.open.__doc__
    """
    def __get__(self, obj, typ=None):
        return (
            "open(file, mode='r', buffering=-1, encoding=None, "
                 "errors=None, newline=None, closefd=True)\n\n" +
            open.__doc__)

class OpenWrapper:
    """Wrapper for builtins.open

    Trick so that open won't become a bound method when stored
    as a class variable (as dbm.dumb does).

    See initstdio() in Python/pylifecycle.c.
    """
    __doc__ = DocDescriptor()

    def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
        return open(*args, **kwargs)
---

Currently, it's not possible possible to use directly _pyio.open as a method:
---
class MyClass:
    method = _pyio.open
---

whereas "method = io.open" just works because io.open() is a built-in function.


See also bpo-43680 "Remove undocumented io.OpenWrapper and _pyio.OpenWrapper" and my thread on python-dev:

"Weird io.OpenWrapper hack to use a function as method"
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/thread/QZ7SFW3IW3S2C5RMRJZOOUFSHHUINNME/

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 389905
nosy: vstinner
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Make function wrapped by staticmethod callable
versions: Python 3.10

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