Tony Cappellini wrote: > Kent > > Would you show the examples which show where staticmethod & > classmethod are used?
Some good discussion here: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/56ee49c203fd72e2/922f84d9d26662fc?hl=en&lnk=gst& I don't use classmethods so I can't discuss that. For staticmethods, suppose I have in foo.py class Foo(object): # Lots of useful stuff In client.py I have from foo import Foo # Do interesting things with Foo Now perhaps I need a function doSomethingRelatedToFoo() that belongs in foo.py but doesn't have to be an instance method - it is just a related function. I could make this a module function and change client.py to read from foo import Foo, doSomethingRelatedToFoo doSomethingRelatedToFoo() or I could make doSomethingRelatedToFoo a staticmethod, then I don't have to change the import statement, I can access doSomethingRelatedToFoo() through the already-imported Foo class: Foo.doSomethingRelatedToFoo() It's a pretty small difference but I like keeping the import simple and not having to change it when I add doSomethingRelatedToFoo() to foo.py. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor