Is classless worth consideration

[Michael]

>It's just occured to me that backing into that particular
>issue might work: use class methods and never bother
>with instantiating the classes at all. I'm not sure what
>we'd lose. (possibly descriptors?)
>
You can already use:

class test:
     x = 1

t = test
print t.x


Is there any way to to call a class method without making an instance of 
that class? To me that would be useful because you could mimic modules 
without having to create a sepperate file. Or is there already a way to 
do that?