# HG changeset patch
# User Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
# Date 1309176801 -7200
# Node ID d19c5ae165de5e9350fd6495ea009d9becb785c1
# Parent  76e6b6c5d5cb76f3e4d0b8b72689fba07cdce269
Make load() method of the User class into a static method.

diff -r 76e6b6c5d5cb -r d19c5ae165de src/ltpdarepo/user.py
--- a/src/ltpdarepo/user.py	Mon Jun 27 14:08:38 2011 +0200
+++ b/src/ltpdarepo/user.py	Mon Jun 27 14:13:21 2011 +0200
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@
     def __getitem__(self, name):
         return getattr(self, name)
 
-    def load(self, username):
+    @staticmethod
+    def load(username):
         conn = connection()
         curs = conn.cursor(DictCursor)
         curs.execute("""SELECT username,
@@ -61,10 +62,11 @@
                         FROM users WHERE username=%s""", username)
         user = curs.fetchone()
         if user is None:
-            return user
+            return None
+        obj = User()
         for key, value in user.iteritems():
-            setattr(self, key, value)
-        return self
+            setattr(obj, key, value)
+        return obj
 
     def create(self):
         if not self.password: