"Kris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > I am a newbie to Python. With a background in Java, I was attempting > to write static methods in the class without the self as the first > parameter, when I got an error. I did a search for the same on Google > and found out that there was no consistent approach to this. I would > like to know what is the prescribed approach for the same. Any > thoughts, pointers about the same would be very much appreciated.
Generally, there's very little need for static methods in Python. That niche is better handled by module level functions. You can use real static methods with new style classes, using the staticmethod built in function. However, you can't reference class variables with static methods - you should use class methods to do that. See the Python library documentation. John Roth > > Thanks, > Kris > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
