Make staticmethod objects callable?

[Steven Bethard]

Nicolas Fleury wrote:
> I was wondering if it would make sense to make staticmethod objects 
> callable, so that the following code would work:
> 
> class A:
>     @staticmethod
>     def foo(): pass
>     bar = foo()

Do you have a real-world use case?  I pretty much never use 
staticmethods (preferring instead to use module-level functions) so I'm 
having a hard time coming up with some code where this would be really 
useful.  I'm also a little wary of breaking the parallel between 
classmethod and staticmethod which are currently *just* descriptors 
(without any other special functionality).

Maybe instead of making just staticmethods callable, both staticmethods 
and classmethods could gain an 'im_func' attribute like bound and 
unbound methods have?

STeVe