staticmethod and setattr

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:43:02 -0700, Michael.Lausch wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I managed to get confused by Python, which is not such an easy task.
> 
> The problem i have is rooted in marshalling, JSON and Dojo. I need some
> static class in function with the name "$ref" i tried:
> class Foo(object):
>     @staticmethod
>     def _ref(o):
>          pass
> 
> setattr(Foo, "$ref", Foo._ref)

That doesn't work as expected:

>>> Foo.__dict__['_ref'] is Foo.__dict__['$ref']
False


Try this instead:

>>> setattr(Foo, "$ref", Foo.__dict__['_ref'])
>>> Foo.__dict__['_ref'] is Foo.__dict__['$ref']
True




-- 
Steven