On 10/31/18 8:53 AM, 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?
It should be a staticmethod if the code is, while not linked to any instance in particular, still fundamentally inherent to the class itself and of little use outside the context of that class. It should be a stand-alone function if it provides stand-alone functionality. The decision is also almost certainly not worth the amount of thought you're giving it.
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