[Python-Dev] Adding types.build_class for 3.3

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu May 10 02:03:24 CEST 2012


Nick Coghlan wrote:
> In that case, consider me convinced: static method it
> is.

-0.93. Static methods are generally unpythonic, IMO.

Python is not Java -- we have modules. Something should
only go in a class namespace if it somehow relates to
that particular class, and other classes could might
implement it differently. That's not the case with
build_class().

-- 
Greg


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