[Pythonmac-SIG] Categories for class methods

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 27, 2005, at 15:24, Dethe Elza wrote:

> FYI, once I updated PyObjC from svn, my example code worked, thanks 
> again Ronald.
...
> class NSImage(Category(NSImage)):
>
>     def rect(self):
>         return (0,0),self.size()
>
>     @classmethod # for Python2.3 replace with read_ = 
> classmethod(read_)
>     def read_(cls, filepath):
>         return NSImage.alloc().initWithContentsOfFile_(filepath)

Just a nit here, you should probably call this imageWithFilePath_ to 
follow convention.  "read:" is a really confusing name for an 
initializer.

-bob