Python Method Types Recap & Review

Super cool explanation on method types in python.. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

@sumankalyanr: Thanks, that’s great to hear!

Great explanation , I’m really enjoying this class.

Awesome! I really enjoy this video set.

super cool, it would be awesome if we get references to real world implementation as well, probably link to github/gitlab projects which has the usage of OOP Method

Great tutorial, but real world examples would be great!

Awesome, Thank you so much

Thanks Dan; clear explanation but would like to echo the same as previous posts. Real world examples would really help drive it home.

Some inspiration for real-world use cases of @staticmethod and @classmethod:

• stackoverflow.com/questions/5738470/whats-an-example-use-case-for-a-python-classmethod
• stackoverflow.com/questions/38238/what-is-the-purpose-of-class-methods
• stackoverflow.com/questions/2438473/what-is-the-advantage-of-using-static-methods-in-python/2438627

Thanks for another good tutorial and thanks for the links to stackoverflow. There’s a lot of different opinions to digest.

I like the short, digestable (no Pizza pun intended, but I’ll take it), and on point. Thanks! IF I’m right and the “magic” is in the decorators to make things work one way or other, you might want to make special note of that. I’ve only seen decorator use here and there in the trails I’ve been following and I’ve already forgotten the bits I’ve seen.

Sorry … digestible.

Im sorry man, but I didnt find good information from this tutorial. Perhaps more and different use cases. I would have preferred a longer tutorial if it meant more and clear guidance on this topic.

Thanks Dan, but have to agree with others. The links from stackoverflow have some good information, but a couple solid examples in the tutorial itself would have been preferable.

I found this example helpful: stackabuse.com/pythons-classmethod-and-staticmethod-explained/

Excellent !

Good but “too compact”!

Here is a bit of a deeper dive on this subject matter that still involves pizza (found via one of Dan’s stackoverflow posts linked above):

julien.danjou.info/guide-python-static-class-abstract-methods/

@Mark Walle, thanks for link, that article explains about bounded & unbounded methods which gave me further understanding into the python way. One thing I wonder is does a method have to be either a class/cls method, a bound/self method, a static method or an abstract method…there are no other options for it to be just a method?

Thank you so much!!! I have one question though: when we call @classmethod like Pizza.margherita(), does it mean we have created instance of class or object?

Thanks

Hi @ephremworkeye. Is it correct that you’re thinking of a @classmethod called margherita() that’s part of the Pizza class:

class Pizza:

    @classmethod
    def margherita(cls):
        return "It's a pi'zza!"

This toy implementation doesn’t make much sense as a @classmethod, considering that the cls argument isn’t used in the body of the method. But since that’s not the point of your question, we can let it slide :)

So if you’re calling a @classmethod called margherita() that’s part of the Pizza class, then you can get the following output:

>>> Pizza.margherita()
"It's a pi'zza!"

>>> Pizza.margherita() == Pizza().margherita()
True

>>> Pizza.margherita
<bound method Pizza.margherita of <class '__main__.Pizza'>>

Where do you think the @classmethod belongs to when you look at this output, and what’s your interpretation of the results? Can you come up with another test that might help answer your question?

@ephremworkeye instance of the class.