[Python-Dev] Adding types.build_class for 3.3

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:57:55AM +0100, Mark Shannon wrote:

> As a consequence of this, making build_class either a class method or a 
> static method will cause a direct call to type.build_class() to fail as 
> neither class method nor static method are callable.

This might be a good reason to make them callable, especially 
staticmethod. I understand that at the language summit, this was 
considered a good idea:

http://python.6.n6.nabble.com/Callable-non-descriptor-class-attributes-td1884829.html

It certainly seems long overdue: confusion due to staticmethods 
not being callable go back a long time:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3932948/
http://grokbase.com/t/python/python-list/11bhhtv95y/staticmethod-makes-my-brain-hurt
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-August/272593.html


-- 
Steven