Referring to the class name from a class variable where inheritance is involved

[Paul Moore]

On 6 December 2011 18:12, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about a class property?
>
> class classproperty(object):
>    def __init__(self, fget):
>        self.__fget = fget
>    def __get__(self, instance, owner):
>        return self.__fget(owner)

Nice :-) About as heavyweight as a classmethod, though, so it doesn't
buy me much over that (beyond avoiding a set of parens, which isn't a
big deal). Either classmethod or classproperty gives me the key
benefit I'm after, which is avoiding the per-instance overhead,
though.

TBH, this is a huge case of premature optimisation, though, so it's
probably little more than an academic or style question. :-)

Paul