Make staticmethod objects callable?

From: Nicolas Fleury <nid_oizo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:17:36 -0500

Hi everyone,
I was wondering if it would make sense to make staticmethod objects callable, so that the following code would work:

class A:
@staticmethod
def foo(): pass
bar = foo()

I understand staticmethod objects don't need to implement __call__ for their other use cases, but would it still make sense to implement __call__ for that specific use case? Would it be error-prone in any way?

Thx and regards,
Nicolas
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