Python style question

[Martin Pool]

On  6 Jun 2005, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, and very useful they are too.  I often wish other languages had
classmethods. 

Hm, I don't really understand your mail though... if you did want an
abstract factory then a static method would seem to be the right
way, and I didn't speak of class methods...

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

-- 
Martin