Is classless worth consideration

[Michele Simionato]

Michael <mogmios at mlug.missouri.edu> wrote in message news:<mailman.104.1083210274.25742.python-list at python.org>...
> Is there any way to to call a class method without making an instance of 
> that class? 

Yes, with classmethods and staticmethods and more in general with
custom descriptors.

> To me that would be useful because you could mimic modules 
> without having to create a sepperate file. Or is there already a way to 
> do that?

You can dynamically generate a module:

>>> from types import ModuleType # in Python 2.3
>>> mymodule=ModuleType("mymodule","This a dynamic module")
>>> help(mymodule)
Help on module mymodule:

NAME
    mymodule - This a dynamic module

FILE
    (built-in)

You can populate the module with setattr or by hand:

>>> mymodule.a=1
>>> mymodule.a
1

HTH,
           Michele Simionato