"Neil" <mac4-devnull at theory.org> wrote in message news:3b0ae1d8$0$328$8eec23a at newsreader.tycho.net... > I am interested in having a function associated with a class that can be > run without an instance of the class. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook/Recipe/52304 and other more advanced recipes in the Cookbook may help. Alex