What is the difference between a static method and class method in Python?

I understand the syntactical differences, but functionally, what is different?  Why would I choose a class method over a static method in a Python class?

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I created a class using a module that saves run-time data within an instance dictionary object.  At the end of the process I'd like to serialize this dictionary object to a file using cpickle, which I do in the __del__(self) method.  Often times however...

Specifically for efn-ga, however, as he may not want to do it, everyone with Java and Python skills is welcome to give it a go. I need a re-write of a Java / Python spider that I wrote myself. I've been tweaking it off and on as time permits, however...

I have an upcoming exam for my computer science class and I'm still pretty novice when it comes to creating programs. I have a strong desire to learn python and just become a better programmer overall so I was hoping some people had any ideas or examples...

This should be simple, but I just can't find the answer in books. I have a Class called Clock which stores the time. Once I have defined two Clock objects with different times in them, there is supposed to be a method in the Class which will determine...

This description has been edited by another user. interface Hello { void show(); } class Demo implements Hello { void show() { System.out.println("i am in method of Demo class"); this.call(); } Hello h= new Hello() { public void...

I get an eclipse error that the method play() is undefined for my game classes and I do not know how to add the method play to them. Also if you spot anything wrong with my demo could you let me know, I haven't run it yet because of the errors so I'm...

class object:    def newmethod(self):         etc. etc. a = newmethod object.newmethod() works but object.__class__.__dict__[a]() returns newmethod() takes exactly one argument, 0 given