PEP 318: Can't we all just get along?

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.1991.1092960665.5135.python-list at python.org>,
 "Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)" <tdelaney at avaya.com> wrote:

> Neil Zanella wrote:
> 
> > Well, allow me to contribute my thoughts on staticmethod and
> > classmethod: 
> > I am barely starting out with Python and my class objects are already
> > loaded with so many
> > 
> > foo = staticmethod(foo)
> 
> These two facts could be somewhat related ... ;)
> 
> Tim Delaney

I never quite understood the point of static methods inside classes.  
When would you ever need to do that, as opposed to just a function in a 
module?  In Java's "everything is part of a class" philosophy, it makes 
sense, but in Python?