Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
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Dennis Peterson wrote:

> ...much like Java static methods. I see the point there, I'm just
> trying to
> figure out the purpose of the implicit class object in classmethod.

It simply generalizes a case.  When you have a function associated with
a class, you might want the class passed in as another argument.  That
would facilitate, for instance, having the same function (converted to a
static method with staticmethod) act as a static method in multiple
classes.

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