Question

How do I override a staticmethod and keep it static?

In [6]: class Foo(object):
   ...:     @staticmethod
   ...:     def foo(a, b):
   ...:         print a + b
   ...:         
   ...:         

In [7]: Foo.foo
Out[7]: <function foo at 0x86a1a74>

In [8]: class Bar(Foo):
   ...:     def foo(a, b):
   ...:         print a - b
   ...:         
   ...:         

In [9]: Bar.foo
Out[9]: <unbound method Bar.foo>

I’ve tried decorated Bar’s foo with staticmethod and it works. But I have to decorated it everytime I subclass.

Answer 1

That’s how you are supposed to do it. In other programming languages you have to use the static keyword everytime, too.