Referring to class methods in class attributes

[Stephen Hansen]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:38 AM, mk <mrkafk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, that worked. But in order to make it work I had to get rid of
> 'self' in print_internal_date signature, bc all other functions in tagdata
> have only a single argument:
>

Right, I should have caught that.

You can make print_internal_date a @staticmethod.

Or just leave it as a top level function where it was perfectly happy to
live :)


> That looks weird: a method with no 'self'. Hmm that is probably seriously
> wrong.
>

> This obviously means no other method can call it like
> self.print_internal_date(), because self would get passed as first argument,
> yes?
>

It doesn't have to be. It could be a class method-- @classmethod does that,
makes it receive 'cls' the actual class as the first argument. Or a
@staticmethod, in which case it has no first-argument at all.


--S
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