What is the meaning of static and class methods ?

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"fowlertrainer at anonym.hu" <fowlertrainer at anonym.hu> wrote in message news:<mailman.213.1088407296.27577.python-list at python.org>...
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> I want to anyone please send an example of class/static methods that 
> HAVE MEANING.
> A real example, to I understand, why we need that methods in python.
> 
> Thanx for it:
>  FT

I may sound heretic, but I never thought their introduction as builtins
was a particularly clever idea. Python lived pretty well without them for 
years and could continue living without them. They are just a syntactic
convenient which is not very convenient, actually, since we do not have
decorators yet.


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