[Python-Dev] Re: Static method and class method comments
M.-A. Lemburg
mal@lemburg.com
Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:32:28 +0200
Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
> Paul> Agree strongly. This will also be a problem for documentation
> Paul> generation tools, type extraction tools and class browsers. I
> Paul> believe it would be easy to add a contextual keyword
>
> >> class C:
> >> def static foo(x, y):
> >> print "classmethod", x, y
>
> Even better yet, why not simply reuse the class keyword in this context:
>
> class C:
> def class foo(x, y):
> print "classmethod", x, y
AFAIK, the only way to add classmethods to a class is by doing
so after creation of the class object. In that sense you don't have
a problem with parsing doc-extraction tools at all: they don't
have a chance of finding the class methods anyway ;-)
Importing doc-extraction tools won't have a problem with these though
and neither will human doc-extraction tools, since these will note
that the class methods are special :-)
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