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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:13:38 +0200
Subject: Re: staticmethod makes my brain hurt
From: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 09:37, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
>> Try this (untested):
>>
>> class C:
>> =C2=A0 @staticmethod
>> =C2=A0 def foo():
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 pass
>>
>> =C2=A0 print "inside", C.foo, callable(C.foo)
>
> If you had tested this, you would have found that you get a NameError,
> since C is not yet bound inside the class block where you define it.
>

I hadn't tested, I'm at work far from Idle. Just shooting from the hip.

For that matter, though, this does work in Java (I'm pretty sure but
again, untested right now).

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