Re: Make staticmethod objects callable?

Nicolas Fleury wrote:
I was wondering if it would make sense to make staticmethod objects callable, so that the following code would work:

class A:
@staticmethod
def foo(): pass
bar = foo()

Do you have a real-world use case? I pretty much never use staticmethods (preferring instead to use module-level functions) so I'm having a hard time coming up with some code where this would be really useful. I'm also a little wary of breaking the parallel between classmethod and staticmethod which are currently *just* descriptors (without any other special functionality).

Maybe instead of making just staticmethods callable, both staticmethods and classmethods could gain an 'im_func' attribute like bound and unbound methods have?

STeVe
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