Steven Bethard wrote: > ... > Yes, you have to explain descriptors, but at the point that you start > trying to do funny things with staticmethods and classmethods, I think > you need to start learning about them anyway.)
That's all good points, but IMHO, descriptors are a much more advanced Python feature than static methods, especially for programmers from other backgrounds, like Java/C#/C++. We basically have the choice between hiding something unnecessarily complex or force to understand a useful feature;) > All that said, you should probably just submit a patch and see what > happens. I'll make a brief comment on it along the above lines, but > since I'm not a committer, it's not really worth your time to try to > convince me. ;) I might do it, but even if I'm not a commiter, I'll continue trying to convince myself;) Nicolas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list