Pylint false positives

Dan Sommers dan at tombstonezero.net
Mon Aug 20 12:12:41 EDT 2018


On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 14:39:38 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> If a class' methods don't use self, it probably shouldn't be a class.

Agreed.

> I have often wished Python had proper namespaces, so I didn't have to
> abuse classes as containers in this way :-(
> 
> (Not that I do this using "inner classes", but I do often want to use
> a class as a container for functions, without caring about "self" or
> wrapping everything in staticmethod.)

Isn't that what modules are for?  (I suspect that I'm missing something,
because I also suspect that you knew/know that.)

Dan




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