Static Methods in Python

[Erik Max Francis]

Kris wrote:

>   I am a newbie to Python. With a background in Java, I was attempting
> to write static methods in the class without the self as the first
> parameter, when I got an error. I did a search for the same on Google
> and found out that there was no consistent approach to this. I would
> like to know what is the prescribed approach for the same. Any
> thoughts, pointers about the same would be very much appreciated.

Do something like (2.4):

	@staticmethod
	def aStaticMethod(x, y, z):
	    ...

Prior to 2.4, use:

	def aStaticMethod(x, y, z):
	    ...
	aStaticMethod = staticmethod(aStaticMethod)

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