I knew it was a feature but had only a few minutes to answer and was playing it safe ;) You would be surprised how many answers you can squeeze out of that one URL. That whole page is worth a month of study( for me anyway ). I am still trying to grasp the 'purpose' of classmethods.
Michele Simionato wrote: > > M.E.Farmer: > > >Your answer lies somewhere in this page ;) > >http://www.python.org/2.2.2/descrintro.html > > Yes, when it refers to > > http://www.python.org/2.3/mro.html > > (section Bad Method Resolution Orders). > > In short, it is a feature, not a bug. > > Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list