On 2007-06-20, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-06-20, Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> In C++ they are used most often for factory functions, since >>> they conveniently have access to the class's private members, >>> and don't want or need an existing instance. Python seems to >>> have adopted this use-case (ConfigParser, for example), but >>> without a need for it (code organization?). >> >> What staticmethod does ConfigParser have? Can't recall one >> offhand. > > I misremembered which module I had recently seen it in:
A quick search of the 2.5 Lib directory had the following results. Only sqlite3 uses the staticmethod built-in function for a family of conversion functions. The other references to staticmethod were either tests of the involving them, or introspection facilities that had to deal with them. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
