[Python-Dev] method decorators (PEP 318)

[Greg Ewing]

Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu>:

> > I'm not sure I understand. Why not make them module-level functions?
> 
> Namespaces my friend, namespaces (I don't know if other people use this,
> but I have on occasion).

My point was, that in any likely use I can think of for
staticmethods, it wouldn't do any *harm* to use a classmethod
instead.

> def make_all_static(cls):
>     for i,j in cls.__dict__.iteritems():
>         if isinstance(j, instancemethod)
>         cls.__dict__[i] = staticmethod(j)

You'd still be able to do that, just as you'd still be able
to use the old method of creating a staticmethod. There
just wouldn't be any special syntax just for staticmethods
analogous to the one I suggested for classmethods.

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