On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:57:55AM +0100, Mark Shannon wrote: > As a consequence of this, making build_class either a class method or a > static method will cause a direct call to type.build_class() to fail as > neither class method nor static method are callable.
This might be a good reason to make them callable, especially staticmethod. I understand that at the language summit, this was considered a good idea: http://python.6.n6.nabble.com/Callable-non-descriptor-class-attributes-td1884829.html It certainly seems long overdue: confusion due to staticmethods not being callable go back a long time: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3932948/ http://grokbase.com/t/python/python-list/11bhhtv95y/staticmethod-makes-my-brain-hurt http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-August/272593.html -- Steven _______________________________________________ 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
