@staticmethod, backward compatibility?
Laszlo Zsolt Nagy
gandalf at designaproduct.biz
Tue Sep 27 08:19:22 EDT 2005
Neal Becker wrote:
>How can I write code to take advantage of new decorator syntax, while
>allowing backward compatibility?
>
>I almost want a preprocessor.
>
>#if PYTHON_VERSION >= 2.4
>@staticmethod
>...
>
>
>Since python < 2.4 will just choke on @staticmethod, how can I do this?
>
>
Decorators are there because
class MyClass:
@staticmethod
def my_method(arg1, arg2, ...):
whatever
is nicer than
class MyClass:
def my_method(arg1, arg2, ...):
whatever
my_method = staticmethod(my_method)
I'm affraid, if you need to be 2.3 compatible then you need to use the
later form.
Les
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