Static class methods

[Alex Shindich]

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>    * Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
>    * From: Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>
>    * Subject: Re: Static class methods
>    * Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 14:50:12 +1300
>    * Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury
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> The class scope is already special with respect to
> nested scopes anyway, since it doesn't count as a
> scope when you're looking out from inside a method.
> So even if there were class methods, you wouldn't
> be able to call them from within a method without
> qualification of some sort.
>
> However, class scopes *do* behave like other scopes
> in that the code in the body of the following function:

I would argue that this is inconsistent. Since nested scopes are supported now, classes should be subjected to the same rules functions are.

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