Hello, While writing one of my classes, I needed to factor out some bits of functionality into private, instance-independent functions. To avoid supplying any extra arguments to these functions, I have made them into static methods using the @staticmethod decorator.
However, Tom has pointed out [0] that @classmethod would be preferable instead. I have tried to google why that would be the case, but I haven't managed to dig anything out. Grepping over the source of SymPy reveals the usage of @staticmethod on occasions almost as numerous as those where @classmethod is used. Is there a fixed strategy when to use one of the two decorators in SymPy? Sergiu [0] https://github.com/scolobb/sympy/commit/603fd9e97f5b3215f3165f265a806b09fb80a830#sympy-categories-diagram_drawing-py-P6 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
