Python: possible to call static method from within class without qualifying the name

Question

This is annoying:

class MyClass:
    @staticmethod
    def foo():
        print \"hi\"

    @staticmethod
    def bar():
        MyClass.foo()

Answer 1

You can do something hacky by making a module level function foo and then adding it to the class namespace with staticmethod:

def foo():
    print "hi"

class MyClass(object):
    foo = staticmethod(foo)

    @classmethod
    def bar(cls):
        return cls.foo()

    def baz(self):
        return foo()


c = MyClass()
c.bar()
c.baz()

MyClass.bar()
MyClass.foo()