PEP 318: Can't we all just get along?

[Paul Morrow]

Roy Smith wrote:
> 
> I never quite understood the point of static methods inside classes.  
> When would you ever need to do that, as opposed to just a function in a 
> module?  In Java's "everything is part of a class" philosophy, it makes 
> sense, but in Python?

It gives us another means of managing namespaces.  Rather than having to 
create a top-level function in the current (or some other) module, we 
can group it with other related functions as a method in a class.