[Python-Dev] Making staticmethod objects callable?

Thu Mar 16 06:10:57 CET 2006

Armin Rigo wrote:
> Hi Nicolas,
>> On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 01:55:03AM -0500, Nicolas Fleury wrote:
>> (...) A use case is not hard to 
>> imagine, especially a private static method called only to build a class 
>> attribute.
>> Uh. I do this all the time, and the answer is simply: don't make that a
> staticmethod. Staticmethods are for the rare case where you need
> dynamic class-based dispatch but don't have an instance around.

I think we all agree on this list that there's no point using a 
staticmethod for that use case. My suggestion was for some 
comp.lang.python people, a lot coming from other languages. Their 
reflex would be much more to define a staticmethod. This issue has been 
pointed a lot of times on comp.lang.python.
Regards,
Nicolas