Classes: What is the standard trick for ...

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <395235F9.94C0BBA1 at erols.com>,
Edward C. Jones <edcjones at erols.com> wrote:
>I would like to keep a collection of related functions together
>in a class:
>
>class functions:
>    def f1():
>        print 'f1'
>
>    def f2():
>        print 'f2'
>
>I would like a function call to look like "function.f1()". I
>would like to spare the user the need to create an instance of
>the class. Can I do this? How?

Use a module instead of a class.  I.e., create functions.py and require
the user to 'import functions'; then functions.f1() will work fine.
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