Re: [PyChecker-list] disabling warning about self not first argument

[Neal N. <ne...@me...>]

Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> 
> Note that it isn't obvious to me how to recognize a class method vs. a
> regular method.  In particular, for the few metaclasses I've written,

Me neither, that's why I haven't done anything. 
Well, ok, it's one of the reasons.  :-)

> I've used a different variable for __new__() than for __init__().  The
> first argument to __new__() is the metaclass and I use the variable
> meta.  The first argument to __init__() is the class and I use the
> variable cls.  (There's an example if Demo/newmetaclasses/Eiffel.py.)
> 
> Perhaps the pattern is simple because __new__() is the only special
> case, but it's not clear that self / cls / meta is a widely used
> pattern.
> 
> Rather than try to enforce a particular behavior, I'd be happier to
> disable the warning.

Agreed.  Also if the variable could be configured, so the classmethod's
first arg could be cls | klass | c | whatever.  But default would need
to be no checking.

I won't make the same mistake again with the self warning not being able
to be turned off easily.

Neal