Python style question

[Martin Pool]

On  6 Jun 2005, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Martin Pool wrote:
> 
> | 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...
> 
> AIUI, there are no static methods in Python.  The closest thing is a
> class method.

Try 'pydoc staticmethod'.

The difference is that classmethods receive their the class as a first
parameter comparable to self, and static methods do not.
staticmethods are like in Java, and classmethods are more powerful -
for example one can have a class method that acts as a quasi-constructor, returning 
an instance of the subclass on which it was invoked.

-- 
Martin