static methods

[Clark C. Evans]

On 24 Mar 2001, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
| Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:27:42 -0800, Paul Prescod <paulp at ActiveState.com>:
| | Probably because they are simply not neccessary. 
| | 
| | def _static():
| | 	XXX.foo=bar
| | 	return XXX.foo
| | 
| | class Class:
| | 	staticmethod = _static
| | 	...
| 
| It doesn't work. Try to call it.
| 
| The fact that you are not the first person who thinks it works
| suggests that the current Python's solution is not ideal :-)

>>> class Class:
        class StaticFudge:
            def __call__(self): 
                print "I am a static"
        staticmethod = StaticFudge()
>>> Class.staticmethod()
I am static

    It took much looking and many wrong answers before 
    Alex Martelli pointed me to this solution.  

| | This proposal asks that None be allowed when calling a
| | method using the class syntax, e.g.,  the following
| | syntax would be allowed, MyClass.method(None,...).
| 
| I would be more radical and allow anything as the first argument.
| In other words, don't touch function objects while retrieving them
| from a class. Instead, convert them to bound methods when retrieving
| them from an instance.

This was my initial position
  
| The only problem seems that some errors will be poorly detected.

This is why I reduced it to only allowing "None".

;) Clark