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Sat Nov 24 19:06:30 CET 2007 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-November/075360.html

* Greg Ewing wrote:

> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> > class MoneyField(Field):
> >     # does need staticmethod because two_decimal_places
> >     # doesn't take a self
> >     converter = staticmethod(two_decimal_places)
>
> Okay, I see what you mean now. But you could just as well wrap
> it in a function that takes self and discards it, 

I always thought, that this is exactly what staticmethod does.

> so I still 
> don't think staticmethod is essential in the absence of
> unbound methods.

Actually I don't see why those issues were bound together in the first 
place.

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