Class Methods Vs Any Other Callable

[Arnaud Delobelle]

"bruno.desthuilliers at gmail.com" <bruno.desthuilliers at gmail.com> writes:

> On 14 mai, 22:44, Arnaud Delobelle <arno... at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> "bruno.desthuilli... at gmail.com" <bruno.desthuilli... at gmail.com> writes:
>> > On 14 mai, 19:45, Arnaud Delobelle <arno... at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> >> __new__ is a static method!
>>
>> > __new__ is a special-cased staticmethod that  1/ must not be declared
>> > as such and 2/ takes the class object as first args. As far as I'm
>> > concerned, it's semantically a classmethod.
>>
>> It's a static method!
>
> Sorry Arnaud, I probably didn't made it clear enough : I do know it is
> a staticmethod object. What I say is that
> 1/ it's special-cased since you don't *explicitely* declare it as a
> staticmethod
> 2/ it behaves just like a classmethod, since it takes the class as
> first argument.
>
> IOW, I'm talking about semantic, not implementation.

... and I was being facetious, not serious :)

-- 
Arnaud