Why does pycharm propose to change method to static

Question

The new pycharm release (3.1.3 community edition) proposes to convert the methods that don\'t work with the current object\'s state to static.

Answer 1

I can imagine following advantages of having a class method defined as static one:

• you can call the method just using class name, no need to instantiate it.

remaining advantages are probably marginal if present at all:

• might run a bit faster
• save a bit of memory