zealalot wrote:
On May 1, 10:50 am, CTO <debat...@gmail.com> wrote:
Make doNothing a classmethod.
class SomeClass:
@classmethod
def doNothing(cls):
pass
def function1(self):
print "Running function 1"
def function2(self, passedFunction=meClass.doNothing):
print "Running passed function"
passedFunction()
someObject =omeClass()
someObject.function2()
someObject.function2(someObject.function1)
It's not surprising, but I've never heard of a classmethod before.
Basically, I read that it basically removes the need for the 'self'
argument. Very cool!
And thanks for the quick response,
- Zealalot
As you've probably figured out by now, that also gets an error, since
you can't refer to the SomeClass until the definition is complete.
Better is either the sentinel approach, or defining the function outside
the class. Note that since the signature must match the passed
function, you presumably need neither a self nor a cls. So keep it
simple and define doNothing as a top-level function.
But it's worth expanding on the notion of a classmethod. This type of
function is callable with any object, or just with the class name
itself. But it doesn't have an access to instance attributes. That's
good, but not very common. Class attributes are more common, and
they're attributes which are shared among all the objects of the class.
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