Static class methods

[Greg Ewing]

> Alex Shindich wrote:
> 
> This seems weird, since the level
> above the class-- the modules, can have functions. So can the level
> below-- the instance methods. But the classes cannot.

The class scope is already special with respect to
nested scopes anyway, since it doesn't count as a
scope when you're looking out from inside a method.
So even if there were class methods, you wouldn't
be able to call them from within a method without
qualification of some sort.

However, class scopes *do* behave like other scopes
in that the code in the body of the following function:

  def g():
    def f():
      print "foo"
    f()

works just the same way when *executed* in a class
scope:

  class C:
    def f():
      print "foo"
    f()

Try it and you'll see!

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