On May 16, 9:01 pm, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After re-reading "Python is not Java" I finally came to conclusion that > classmethods in Python are a very Bad Thing.
Sounds like a serious case of mis-learning. Class methods are the preferred way to implement alternate constructors. For good examples, see dict.fromkeys() or any of the various datetime constructors. Raymond -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
