Newbie class questions

[Greg Ewing]

Toby Kelsey wrote:
> 
> (1) Is there a reason why I cannot call MyClass.q()?  Why require a
> meaningless instance arg to a class-static method?

There is no such thing as a class-static method in Python.
(There used to be, but Guido noticed that we were using
them and put some code in to stop them from working :-)

There are workarounds, but most of the time it's simpler
and clearer just to use a module-level function instead.

Greg