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[Python-Dev] Making staticmethod objects callable?

Nicolas Fleury nidoizo at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 16 06:10:57 CET 2006 
Armin Rigo wrote:
> Hi Nicolas,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 01:55:03AM -0500, Nicolas Fleury wrote:
>> (...)  A use case is not hard to 
>> imagine, especially a private static method called only to build a class 
>> attribute.
> 
> Uh.  I do this all the time, and the answer is simply: don't make that a
> staticmethod.  Staticmethods are for the rare case where you need
> dynamic class-based dispatch but don't have an instance around.

I think we all agree on this list that there's no point using a 
staticmethod for that use case.  My suggestion was for some 
comp.lang.python people, a lot coming from other languages.  Their 
reflex would be much more to define a staticmethod.  This issue has been 
pointed a lot of times on comp.lang.python.

Regards,
Nicolas
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