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On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 12:16:16 -0800 (PST), Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 11:10:49 AM UTC-6, Dave Angel wrote:
> 
> > We all make mistakes, like my referring to class methods when I
> > meant instance methods. 
> 
> This mistake reminded of how people in this group (maybe not you in particular) happily accept the terms "instance method" and "class method" HOWEVER if you _dare_ use the terms "instance variable" or "class variable" you get a swift rebuke. 
> 
> Would anyone care for another serving of logically inconsistent py? 

	Only that many of us don't believe Python has /variables/, the use
of instance/class as a modifier is thereby moot.

	An instance method is a method that works on an instance of the
class, whereas a class method is meant to work on the class as a
whole... I don't know of anyone arguing that Python does not have
"methods"...

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