On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_666 at gmx.net> wrote: >> What if I need the parse method to be called in other parts of the >> program? > > I don't understand!? Then you call it from those other parts. Yes, you're right. Don't know why, but I was thinking to use @classmethod just for the alternative constructors.