static methods

[Courageous]

>Without debating the rationale, the standard answer is to stick the
>class into a module with the same name and use module global functions
>to simulate static methods.

Yeah, it takes the uninitiated Python programmer a moment of pause
to realize that "global" variables and functions are okay in Python.
This is because every Python file is a "namespace", default. You
have automatic packaging, for free.

Python's packaging model succeeds at being elegant, easy to use,
syntactically lightweight, and conceptually the right thing.

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