why static methods?

Gerrit Holl gerrit at nl.linux.org
Wed Feb 19 16:06:58 EST 2003


Hi,

What is the purpose of static methods? I do not understand the
difference with a function outside the class. Can somebody point me to
an example? The documentation[0:3] only describes behaviour, no purpose.

[0] http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.1/whatsnew/sect-rellinks.html#SECTION000320000000000000000
[1] http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html
[2] http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0252.html

yours,
Gerrit.

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