On Fri, Jul 1, 2016, at 21:50, Kevin Conway wrote: > I believe the namespace object you are referring to is exactly a > class. IIRC, classes came about as a "module in a module".
No, because classes have instances. And conceptually they seem like they *should* have instances. Just using the term "class" carries expectations. More to the point, what modules do that classes do not is provide a global namespace for functions defined within them, so that variables within them can be used (well, read - writing them requires a declaration) by the functions without extra qualification. > Regardless, all use cases you've listed are already satisfied by use > of the static and class method decorators. Methods decorated with > these do not require an instance initialization to use. staticmethod isn't technically required to use a method through the class (or subclasses), it simply provides the appropriate magic to allow it to be called through instances. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
