Static methods in Python?

Question

Can someone tell me a static method in python, I don't want to use initialize a class like this to call them:

ClassName.StaticMethod ( )

Answer 1

You can use staticmethod decorator, look at the code below for instance:

class MyClass(object):
    @staticmethod
    def the_static_method(y):
        print y

MyClass.the_static_method(2) # outputs 2

For Python version 2.2 and 2.3:

 class MyClass(object):

    def the_static_method(y):
        print y
    the_static_method = staticmethod(the_static_method)

MyClass.the_static_method(2) # outputs 2

Hope this helps. Happy learning. 

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Answer 2

You can check out the static method decorator:

>>> class C:

...     @staticmethod

...     def hello():

...             print "Hello World"

...

>>> C.hello()

Hello World

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