On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 20:39, Nick Coghlan wrote: > 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)
Hmm, I've always rather favoured class methods myself. However, that's not the point - the same question can apply just as well to static methods. I know how to construct both in Python, though I rarely use static methods, only class methods. What I was after is a way to define a static method in a C extension module. I just found it - in the library reference, of course. I'd simply missed it before. For anybody else looking through the archives to answer this question later: http://docs.python.org/api/common-structs.html It turns out there are calling convention flags to specify class methods and static methods. From the docs: METH_CLASS The method will be passed the type object as the first parameter rather than an instance of the type. This is used to create class methods, similar to what is created when using the classmethod() built-in function. New in version 2.3. METH_STATIC The method will be passed NULL as the first parameter rather than an instance of the type. This is used to create static methods, similar to what is created when using the staticmethod() built-in function. New in version 2.3. Sorry for the noise everybody, I could've sworn I looked over that already. -- Craig Ringer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
