Kris wrote: > I am a newbie to Python. With a background in Java, I was attempting > to write static methods in the class without the self as the first > parameter, when I got an error. I did a search for the same on Google > and found out that there was no consistent approach to this. I would > like to know what is the prescribed approach for the same. Any > thoughts, pointers about the same would be very much appreciated.
Do something like (2.4): @staticmethod def aStaticMethod(x, y, z): ... Prior to 2.4, use: def aStaticMethod(x, y, z): ... aStaticMethod = staticmethod(aStaticMethod) -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Wyrd has swept all my kin / all the brave chiefs away! / Now I must follow them! -- Beowulf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list