"Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.pra...@jpmorgan.com> writes: > It seems to me that if I add a function to the list of class attributes it > will automatically wrap with "self" but adding it to the object directly will > not wrap the function as a method. Can somebody explain why? I would have > thought that any function added to an object would be a method (unless > decorated as a class method).
The special magic to transform a function into a method is only applied for functions found as attributes of the class, not for instance attributes. It is a matter of design. > Hmm, or does the decoration just tell Python not to turn an object's function > into a method? I.e. Is the decorator basically just the syntactic sugar for > doing the above? The classmethod decorator transforms the method (or actually the function) into a different kind of object (a class method). -- Piet van Oostrum <p...@vanoostrum.org> WWW: http://pietvanoostrum.com/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
