On 14 mai, 19:45, Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On May 14, 10:19 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > An instance method works on the instance > >> > A Static method is basically a function nested within a class object > >> > A class method is overkill? > > >> If anything, a static method is overkill. See it this way: *if* you for > >> some > >> reason put a method into an enclosing context - isn't it worth having a > >> reference to that? > > > My feeling exactly; these days I almost always use class methods > > instead of static. I vaguely remember seeing somewhere an example > > where a static method was the only (elegant) solution; neither a class > > method nor a plain function would do. I'll post it if I find it unless > > someone beats me to it. > > > George > > __new__ is a static method!
__new__ is a special-cased staticmethod that 1/ must not be declared as such and 2/ takes the class object as first args. As far as I'm concerned, it's semantically a classmethod. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
