On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:39:15 +1000, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Craig Ringer wrote: > > Hi folks > > > > I've been doing some looking around, but have been unable to find out > > how to implement class methods on Python objects written in C. "Why are > > you using C?" you ask? > > > > Yeah, so do I. However, I need to provide bindings for an application > > that Python is embedded into, and thanks to Qt the bindings are going to > > be both simple and quite powerful. However, I need a way to do class > > methods... > > > > If anybody has any tips on this, It'd be much appreciated. > > You probably want to look at staticmethod(). (classmethod() is slightly > different, and probably not what you want. In fact, classmethod() is > practically > *never* what you want. Guido wrote it himself, and even he ended up not using > it)
Funny, I find the exact opposite to be the case... ;) Static methods are glorified free functions, but class methods participate usefully in inheritence hierarchies - why would anyone want the former? Jp -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
