Attack a sacred Python Cow

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

Steven D'Aprano writes:

> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:08:12 +0200, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> 
>> so 'self' should *automatically* only be inserted in the function
>> declaration, and *manually* be typed for attributes.
>
>
> That idea might have worked many years ago, but not now. The
> problem is, what happens here?
>
> class Foo(object):
>     def foo(self, arg):
>         self.whatever = arg + 1
>     @classmethod
>     def cfoo(cls, arg):
>         cls.whatever = arg - 1
>     @staticmethod
>     def sfoo(arg):
>         print arg

See <news:874p6fzkkh.fsf at physik.rwth-aachen.de>.  It is only added
to non-decorated methods within a class.  This implies that you can
switch this mechanism off with a noop decorator.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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