Static class methods

[Daniel Klein]

On Sun, 4 Mar 2001 14:22:10 -0800, "Alex Shindich" <alex at shindich.com> wrote:

>Just out of my curiosity, have any of you ladies and gentlemen experienced a
>need for an equivalent of C++/Java static method?
>Because I have, but it is impossible add them to Python classes -- all class
>methods are treated as instance methods.

The Quick Python Book by Daryl Harms and Kenneth McDonald outlines a way to
accomplish this by breaking out the class into its own module and then define
the 'class methods' as top-level functions.

myclass.py

def myClassMethod():
	# do some class thing

class Foo:
	def __init__(self):
                  pass
	def bar(self):
		pass

Daniel Klein