Phillip J. Eby wrote: > If you are configuring it per-class and > accessing it per-instance, and reusing an existing function, you have to > make it a staticmethod.
I don't understand that. Can you provide an example? > > some subclasser later finds that he wants access to > > 'self'? > > Then he overrides it with a normal method. If that works, I don't see why making the default method a normal method wouldn't work also. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com