What is a class method?

[James Mills]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Paulo da Silva
<psdasilva.nospam at netcabonospam.pt> wrote:
> I did it before posting ...
> The "explanation" is not very clear. It is more like "how to use it".

Without going into the semantics of languages basically the
differences are quite clear:

@classmethod is a decorator that warps a function with
passes the class as it's first argument.

@staticmethod (much like C++/Java) is also a decorator that
wraps a function but does not pass a class or instance as
it's first argument.

I won't go into the use-cases as I don't use static or class
methods myself personally in any of my work (yet).

cheers
James

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