-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/28/2011 06:44 AM, Fred Drake wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The two terms I've got out of this thread are "callable attributes" >> (instance/static/class methods, etc) and "data attributes" (everything >> else). Both seem reasonable to me, creating two largely disjoint sets >> that together cover all the different kinds of attribute you're likely >> to encounter. > > But "callable attributes" aren't the same thing as methods; most are methods, > but not all. Sometimes, they're data used by the object. The fact that > data attributes can be callable is irrelevant.
Isn't it fuzzy / incorrect to refer to any callable attribute as a method until it have been extracted via the dot operator / getattr, and therefore bound via descriptor semantics? In this sense, 'staticmethod' doesn't create a "method" at all -- it just defeats the default creation of a method-yielding descriptor. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk4JzHcACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6I5ACZAXlBsZkrzQowKYBmJE4NQb4V F14AnRtkWByqwpRATan4OOTMgPqwyjxH =hru9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
