Hm, thanks guys; I just had to verify I was thinking sanely about it. I am going to pick up classmethods next. Do any of you have common design patterns for the usage. They are just items I haven't integrated in my coding, and I want to be certain I'm off on the right foot (:
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>wrote: > "Steven D'Aprano" <st...@pearwood.info> wrote > > > A little more information... static methods are quite common[1] in Java >> and C++, where people feel the need (or in the case of Java, are forced >> by the language) to make every function a method. >> > > static methods in C++ are normally reserved for use as class > methods (although with the "pollution" from Java that is slowly > changing). Java OTOH has made them much more common but > as substitutes for functions as well as true class methods - yeck! > > They are also found in a slightly different guise in Delphi. > > Python classmethods are more powerful and useful than either. > > Alan G. > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
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