What is the Static Method in Python?

What is Class Method in Python?

The @classmethod decorator is a built-in function decorator that is an expression that gets evaluated after your function is defined. The result of that evaluation shadows your function definition. A class method receives the class as an implicit first argument, just like an instance method receives the instance...

What is the Static Method in Python?

A static method does not receive an implicit first argument. A static method is also a method that is bound to the class and not the object of the class. This method can’t access or modify the class state. It is present in a class because it makes sense for the method to be present in class....

Class method vs Static Method

The difference between the Class method and the static method is:...

When to use the class or static method?

We generally use the class method to create factory methods. Factory methods return class objects ( similar to a constructor ) for different use cases. We generally use static methods to create utility functions....

How to define a class method and a static method?

To define a class method in python, we use @classmethod decorator, and to define a static method we use @staticmethod decorator. Let us look at an example to understand the difference between both of them. Let us say we want to create a class Person. Now, python doesn’t support method overloading like C++ or Java so we use class methods to create factory methods. In the below example we use a class method to create a person object from birth year....