Can __iter__ be used as a classmethod?

[Michael Hudson]

"Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" <me at privacy.net> writes:

> Alex Martelli wrote:
> > Aren't these reasons enough?  How else would you code a method that
> > you can indifferently call either on any instance or on the class
> > object itself?
> 
> How often do people actually *need* that functionality, though?

I've done it, but I can't remember why :-)

> Can someone provide a compelling use case for this in Python?

Depends what you mean by "compelling" of course.  I see little harm in
having them.

Cheers,
M.

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