"""Use of Decorators to set up static methods and
class methods. Also the setting up of your own
decorator"""

def summat(f):
        "Definition of your own decorator"
        def action(*args,**kwargs):
                result = f(*args,**kwargs)
                print "Err ... ",
                return result
        return action

class something(object):
        def __init__(self,stuff):
                self.stuff = stuff
                something.count += 1
        @summat
        def getstuff(self):
                return self.stuff

        def count_c(self):
                return something.count

        def count_c2(self):
                return something.count
        count_c2 = classmethod(count_c2)

        @classmethod
        def count_c3(self):
                print "----->" + str(self)
                return something.count

        @staticmethod
        def count_c4():
                return something.count

something.count = 0

this = something("old")
that = something("new")
them = something("borrowed")
thine = something("brown")

print them.count_c()
print them.getstuff()

print something.count_c2()

print that.count_c3()
print something.count_c3()

print that.count_c4()
print something.count_c4()

""" Sample output:

Dorothy-2:ggw grahamellis$ python class_v_static.py
4
Err ... borrowed
4
-----><class '__main__.something'>
4
-----><class '__main__.something'>
4
4
4
Dorothy-2:ggw grahamellis$

"""