Pylint false positives
Marko Rauhamaa
marko at pacujo.net
Mon Aug 20 15:54:32 EDT 2018
Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info>:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 11:40:16 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>
>> class C:
>> def __init__(self, some, arg):
>> c = self
>> class D:
>> def method(self):
>> access(c)
>> access(some)
>> access(arg)
>>
>> IOW, inner class D is a container for a group of interlinked closure
>> functions.
>
> If a class' methods don't use self, it probably shouldn't be a class.
>
> I have often wished Python had proper namespaces, so I didn't have to
> abuse classes as containers in this way :-(
>
> (Not that I do this using "inner classes", but I do often want to use a
> class as a container for functions, without caring about "self" or
> wrapping everything in staticmethod.)
Yes, the reason to use a class is that there is no handier way to create
a method dispatch or a singleton object.
Marko
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