On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:55 AM, <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote: > Ravi: >> Which is a better approach. >> My personal view is that I should create a module with functions. > > When in doubt, use the simplest solution that works well enough. In > this case, module functions are simple and probably enough. > > But there can be a situation where you want to keep functions even > closer, for example because in a module you have two classes and two > groups of functions related to each class. In such situation > staticmethods seem better.
Using staticmethods also allows you to override some of functions by subclassing if need be. Usually that's not necessary and so plain module functions are preferred, but I know the std lib uses staticmethods in a few places for this reason, so it occasionally is useful to do it this way. Cheers, Chris -- I have a blog: http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list