classmethods, class variables and subclassing

[Andrew Jaffe]

Steve Holden wrote:
> Andrew Jaffe wrote:
> 
>>The problem is that I actually do want to call these methods on the 
>>class itself, before I've made any instances.
>>
> Except you could use staticmethods with an explicit class argument ...

Steve,

Yep, that would work! Thanks.

But it does seem like a bit of a kludge: classmethods seems to be almost 
exactly what you 'ought' to use here (i.e., I really do want to apply 
these methods to the class as an object in its own right).

A