Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Nov 23 07:57:07 CET 2007

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Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> If you are configuring it per-class and 
> accessing it per-instance, and reusing an existing function, you have to 
> make it a staticmethod.

I don't understand that. Can you provide an example?

> > some subclasser later finds that he wants access to
> > 'self'?
> 
> Then he overrides it with a normal method.

If that works, I don't see why making the default
method a normal method wouldn't work also.

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Greg

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