Make staticmethod call itself without calling self.method
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func.func_globals[func.__name__] = func
return func
class Test:
def method(self, x = False):
if x:
print(x)
else:
self.method("I'm method")
@staticmethod
def smethod(x = False):
if x:
print(x)
else:
method("I'm static method")
@staticmethod
@recursive
def rmethod(x = False):
if x:
print(x)
else:
rmethod("I'm recursive method")
test = Test()
test.method() # I'm method
test.rmethod() # I'm recursive method
test.smethod() # raises NameError: global name 'method' is not defined
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please correct me if it can be done better
Tags: decorators, staticmethod
You can access static methods through the class.
e.g Test.smethod()
If you want the name to be global, just write the function at global scope.
You could adapt the Y-Combinator function to work with the static method to give you recursion without nested calls in the source :-)