Python style question

[Aaron Bentley]

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Martin Pool wrote:

| One way is a simple function, as here.  Another way is a static method
| like Branch.open().  I suppose one might also override the call method
| for Branch so that it possibly constructs a subclass(?)

I've only been using python for a year, but my understanding is that
class method != static method.

http://naeblis.cx/rtomayko/2004/12/15/the-static-method-thing
http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html

Personally, I prefer using a function, which is what I do in C++, too.

Aaron
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