[Tutor] classmethod, staticmethod functions (decorator related)

[Alan Gauld]

"Huy Ton That" <huyslogic at gmail.com> wrote

> class WhatFor(object):
>    def it(cls):
>        print 'work with %s' % cls
>    it = classmethod(it)
>    def uncommon():
>        print 'I could be a global function'
>    uncommon = staticmethod(uncommon)
>
> But I can't seem to understand the above. Under what circumstance 
> would
> staticmethod be useful? I am just deriving that you are not passing 
> self.

I think static methjods are largely a mistake of history. ISTR They 
were
introduced into python before class methods (not by much - one 
release?)
and to support backward compatibility they stayed. In practice 
classmethod
will be a better choice.

IMHO at least :-)

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Alan Gauld
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