Choose: class with static methods or module with functions

[Dan Sommers]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:55:40 -0700, bearophileHUGS wrote:

> But there can be a situation where you want to keep functions even
> closer, for example because in a module you have two classes and two
> groups of functions related to each class. In such situation
> staticmethods seem better.

In order not to guess in the face of ambiguity, I propose that you handle 
that case ("two classes and two groups of functions related to each 
class") by splitting that module into two modules.  One module would 
contain one of the classes and its related functions; the other module 
would contain the other class and its related functions.

Unless, of course, you mean that you have two groups of functions, each 
of which are related to *both* classes, in which case I'd still prefer 
module-level functions to staticmethods, but I'm old enough that I only 
speak Object Oriented as a Second Language.

Dan

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