[Python] Bimorphic methods

[Bob Miller]

I just wrote an article in my 'blog about bimorphic methods.
Here's the lead-in.

> Bimorphic methods in Python
> June 15, 2008 by kernelbob
> 
> Methods in Python are either instance methods (the default), static,
> or class methods.  You can create the latter two using the
> @staticmethod and @classmethod decorators.
> 
> But maybe it would be better to have a single function that can be
> called either as a class method or an instance method.  I coined the
> term bimorphic method for this, and I wrote a decorator that can make
> a method bimorphic.

Read the whole article here (if you care).

http://kernelbob.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/bimorphic-methods-in-python/

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Bob Miller                              K<bob>
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