[Python-Dev] Re: Re: Re: Patch review: [ 1094542 ] add Bunch type to collections module

[Steven Bethard]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:31:55 -0700, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> However, I think it would perhaps be best to advertise any methods of Bunch as
> strictly classmethods from day 1.  Otherwise, you can have:
> 
> b = Bunch()
> b.update(otherdict) -> otherdict happens to have an 'update' key
> 
> ... more code
> 
> b.update(someotherdict) -> boom! update is not callable
> 
> If all Bunch methods are officially presented always as classmethods, users can
> simply expect that all attributes of a bunch are meant to store data, without
> any instance methods at all.

That sounds reasonable to me.  I'll fix update to be a staticmethod. 
If people want other methods, I'll make sure they're staticmethods
too.[1]

Steve

[1] In all the cases I can think of, staticmethod is sufficient -- the
methods don't need to access any attributes of the Bunch class.  If
anyone has a good reason to make them classmethods instead, let me
know...

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