On 1/18/08, Ross Ridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The decoration is setting the class type's f1 attribute correctly, but > >doing something strange in the local namespace. > > > >>>> class C: > >... @staticmethod > >... def f1(): pass > >... print f1 > >... > ><staticmethod object at 0x00A69A70> > >>>> print C.f1 > ><function f1 at 0x00A60830> > >The class statement's local namespace is pretty strange. I think I > >mightl go back to pretending there isn't one. > > When class attributes are referenced, functions are turned into unbound > methods and staticmethod objects get turned into functions.
OK, thank you. So the local namespace is just fine, you just can't call the staticmethod using that name directly. -- Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list