Static class methods

[Michael Hudson]

"Alex Shindich" <alex at shindich.com> writes:

> Just out of my curiosity, have any of you ladies and gentlemen
> experienced a need for an equivalent of C++/Java static method?

Here's a particularly nasty way to do what you want.

class C:
    class _Temp:
        def __call__(self, arg):
            print arg
    static = _Temp()
    del _Temp

    def call_static(self):
        self.static("from meth")

Then:

>>> C.static("from cli")
from cli
>>> C().static("from cli 2")
from cli 2
>>> C().call_static()
from meth

Cheers,
M.

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