Totally agree with this. I think both of points should be clarified in the documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#staticmethod
Namely that: * Nearly all uses of static methods should instead be class methods, and * The main exception is setting an ordinary function as a class attribute without making it a method. Best, Neil On Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 3:07:38 PM UTC-5 Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > 19.12.21 19:41, Ethan Furman пише: > > On 12/19/21 5:40 AM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > > > >> classmethod supersedes staticmethod. It was not clearly known when they > >> were introduced, but now we see that there is very few use cases for > >> staticmethod which cannot be replaced by classmethod (actually only one > >> specific case). > > > > What is the one case? > > Setting a Python function as a class attribute without making it a method. > > def func(*args, **kwargs): ... > class A: > f = staticmethod(func) > a = A() > a.f(1) # calls func(1), not func(a, 1) > > It is used in tests if there are C and Python implementations. > staticmethod(func) could be replaced with > > lambda self, /, *args, **kwargs: func(*args, **kwargs) > > or > > property(lambda self: func) > > in these cases. > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python...@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-id...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python...@python.org/message/J7GEEWCKIXWXOEQ4KD3ZFPA5W73ZAWVK/ > > <https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/J7GEEWCKIXWXOEQ4KD3ZFPA5W73ZAWVK/> > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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