Can __iter__ be used as a classmethod?

[Erik Max Francis]

"Phillip J. Eby" wrote:

> I think it would be better to say that staticmethod is the one that
> doesn't give any functionality.  I also think staticmethod is poorly
> named, since it does not produce a method, and it definitely doesn't
> do what a 'static method' does in Java or any other language I know
> of.

Sure it does, at least in some circumstances:

>>> class C:
...  def f(x): print "See?", x
...  f = staticmethod(f)
... 
>>> C.f(123)
See? 123
>>> c = C()
>>> c.f(123)
See? 123

The latter example wouldn't work if f (a staticmethod) weren't acting as
a method.

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