Thanks to Tim Chase & Lie Ryan !! That was exactly what I was looking for !!
It's time for me to now read the documentation of "decorators" and @classmethod and also @staticmethod. I'm quite new to decorators... -- Satish BD On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Lie Ryan <lie.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > bdsatish wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a question regarding the difference b/w "class methods" and >> "object methods". Consider for example: >> >> class MyClass: >> x = 10 >> >> Now I can access MyClass.x -- I want a similar thing for functions. I >> tried >> >> class MyClass: >> def some_func(x): >> return x+2 >> >> When I call MyClass.some_func(10) -- it fails, with error message: >> >> >> TypeError: unbound method some_func() must be called with MyClass >> instance as first argument (got int instance instead) >> >> OK. I figured out that something like this works: >> obj = MyClass() >> y = obj.some_func(10) >> >> BUT, this means that we have functions applying for instances. That is >> we have "instance method". Now, how do I implement some function which >> I can invoke with the class name itself ? Instead of creating a dummy >> object & then calling.... In short, how exactly do I create "class >> methods" ?? > with staticmethod decorator: > >>>> class MyClass: > ... @staticmethod > ... def some_func(x): > ... return x+2 > ... >>>> MyClass.some_func(10) > 12 > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
