On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:34:21 +0100, Eric CHAO wrote:
> I think Python uses a very strange way to define static method in a
> class. Why not make it like this?
What is so strange about it?
> class MyClass:
> def my_static_method(self):
> # self should be None as it's a static method
> # just ignore self
>
> I'm a newcomer so maybe it's quite naive. But I just wonder why it is
> designed like this.
That method above isn't a static method, so why should `self` be None?
Static methods are created with the `staticmethod` function which can be
used as decorator:
class MyClass(object):
@staticmethod
def my_real_static_method():
# Look ma, no `self`. :-)
Static methods are just functions, on classes `classmethod`\s are often
more useful. They get the class as first argument.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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