> > Hmm, > > As an experienced developer I'm rather new to Python, so please forgive me > any non-Pythonic babbling. > From a language point you're probably right, but from a design point I'd > like to have methods that are clearly associated with a class as methods > of that class, even if they don't use any class or instance related data.
Why so? If they _don't_ use that class, whatfor? I use classmethods for factory-methods. But that at least needs the _class_ as argument somehow, and grouping it namespace-wise below the class makes sense. Otherwise, all they do is allowing for java-programming in python - and that simply because java lacks module level functions. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
