On 14 mai, 16:30, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 14, 10:19 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > An instance method works on the instance > > > A Static method is basically a function nested within a class object > > > A class method is overkill? > > > If anything, a static method is overkill. See it this way: *if* you for some > > reason put a method into an enclosing context - isn't it worth having a > > reference to that? > > My feeling exactly; these days I almost always use class methods > instead of static. I vaguely remember seeing somewhere an example > where a static method was the only (elegant) solution; neither a class > method nor a plain function would do. I'll post it if I find it unless > someone beats me to it.
No concrete example here but I surely remember having used staticmethods in one case where I needed class-based polymorphic dispatch and eventually implementation inheritance (to get a default implementation) for something that didn't required access to the class object. > George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
