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Sun Mar 28 23:33:15 EST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-March/043633.html

Dave Harrison <dave at nullcube.com>:

> > and wouldn't bother with staticmethods at all. How often do you
> > actually need a staticmethod in particular and *not* a classmethod?
> 
> It's quite useful to be able to develop, essentially stateless, static
> method utility libraries that dont need to be class based.  Why create

I'm not sure I understand. Why not make them module-level functions?

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