A bug that should be fixed in your Python API code generation (Applies to all recent versions)

The argument self should not appear in any of the following static method declarations that are part of the generated Python C4D API skeletal/placeholder code, since any good Python IDE will complain and/or flag correct user code that use these methods.

In the future, you guys can do something like the following in ...resource\modules\python\libs:

# You can also add the -n flag to the first grep in the pipe chain below, to add line number info after the file name
grep -R -A2 -H "@staticmethod" * 2>&1 | grep -v "MAXON_" | grep -PB2 "def.*?self"

I am not sure if the above grep comprehensively captures every one of these issues, but 99-100% of them should have been caught:

python39/c4d/bitmaps/__init__.py:    @staticmethod
python39/c4d/bitmaps/__init__.py-    def AllocWrapper(self, bmp):
--
python39/c4d/modules/mograph/__init__.py:    @staticmethod
python39/c4d/modules/mograph/__init__.py-    def Create(self, flags, thread, doc, currentThreadIndex, threadCount, inputs, callers):
--
python39/c4d/utils/__init__.py:    @staticmethod
python39/c4d/utils/__init__.py-    def PickObject(self, bd, doc, x, y, rad, flags):
--
python39/c4d/__init__.py:    @staticmethod
python39/c4d/__init__.py-    def GetDistance(self, v1, v2):
--
python39/maxon/decorators.py:            @staticmethod
python39/maxon/decorators.py-            @wraps(fn)
python39/maxon/decorators.py-            def Auto(self, *args):
--
python39/maxon/decorators.py:            @staticmethod
python39/maxon/decorators.py-            @wraps(fn)
python39/maxon/decorators.py-            def ReferenceConvert(self, *args):
--
python39/maxon/decorators.py:            @staticmethod
python39/maxon/decorators.py-            @wraps(fn)
python39/maxon/decorators.py-            def Wrap(self, *args):
--
python39/maxon/decorators.py:            @staticmethod
python39/maxon/decorators.py-            @wraps(fn)
python39/maxon/decorators.py-            def NativeDataOrBuiltin(self, *args):
--
python39/maxon/decorators.py:            @staticmethod
python39/maxon/decorators.py-            @wraps(fn)
python39/maxon/decorators.py-            def _MaxonConvertOrFail(self, *args):
--
python39/maxon/interface.py:    @staticmethod
python39/maxon/interface.py-    def Free(self):
--
python39/maxon/interface.py:    @staticmethod
python39/maxon/interface.py-    def GetLocal(self):
--
python39/maxon/interface.py:    @staticmethod
python39/maxon/interface.py-    def AllocEmpty(self):
--
python39/maxon/interface.py:    @staticmethod
python39/maxon/interface.py-    def AllocFromUuid(self, uuid):
--
python39/maxon/interface.py:    @staticmethod
python39/maxon/interface.py-    def AllocFromString(self, uuidStr):
--
python39/maxon/interface.py:    @staticmethod
python39/maxon/interface.py-    def DescribeIO(self):
--
python39/maxon/interface.py:    @staticmethod
python39/maxon/interface.py-    def CreateUuidString(self):
--
python39.win64.framework/lib/pathlib.py:        @staticmethod
python39.win64.framework/lib/pathlib.py-        def link_to(self, target):

Also, for all of the following, the @classmethod attribute should be changed to @staticmethod and the self argument should be removed, just like for the above cases:

python39.win64.framework/lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py-    @classmethod
python39.win64.framework/lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py:    def create_module(self, spec):
--
python39.win64.framework/lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py-    @classmethod
python39.win64.framework/lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py:    def exec_module(self, module):
--
python39.win64.framework/lib/_collections_abc.py-    @classmethod
python39.win64.framework/lib/_collections_abc.py:    def _from_iterable(self, it):
--
python39.win64.framework/lib/_collections_abc.py-    @classmethod
python39.win64.framework/lib/_collections_abc.py:    def _from_iterable(self, it):

Thanks a lot some are false positive or even coming from the standard library.

But I will fix the one that are wrong and update the doc

Cheers,
Maxime.

Hi, Maxime, great!

if I come across any additional issues of a similar nature, I'll update this post.