From 9d09e1719ce9dea1c97f06dd5f181daed928d6cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: basak Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 14:12:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Typo: fix inverted sense of statement (GH-23288) Looks like a "not" was inadvertently omitted in commit e6a7ea4. Classmethods are useful when data stored in specific instances are *not* needed. Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:JulienPalard --- Doc/howto/descriptor.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst index bc741c738b9..ab5a573c6a0 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst @@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@ for whether the caller is an object or a class: ('F', 3) This behavior is useful whenever the method only needs to have a class -reference and does rely on data stored in a specific instance. One use for +reference and does not rely on data stored in a specific instance. One use for class methods is to create alternate class constructors. For example, the classmethod :func:`dict.fromkeys` creates a new dictionary from a list of keys. The pure Python equivalent is: