Tobiah wrote: > My IDE (pycharm) suggests that I mark my class methods > with @staticmethod when they don't use 'self'. Sounds > good. I did that then it suggested I had the option > to make a regular function instead, at the file level. > That's a possibility. I was thinking that I'd leave > the method in the class unless it was ever also used > by another class. What do you think?
What do *you* think? Is your code demonstrably better if you turn the "normal" method into a static method? Do not make changes to your code only to apeace a linter. Regarding more the general question, should I use an instance method, a class method, a static method, or a function? -- that is hard to answer without an idea what the specific task of the function/method is, and how strong the link to the class is. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
