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8 changes: 6 additions & 2 deletions Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
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Expand Up @@ -1139,8 +1139,8 @@ If you have ever wondered where *self* comes from in regular methods or where
*cls* comes from in class methods, this is it!


Static methods
--------------
Other kinds of methods
----------------------

Non-data descriptors provide a simple mechanism for variations on the usual
patterns of binding functions into methods.
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| classmethod | f(type(obj), \*args) | f(cls, \*args) |
+-----------------+----------------------+------------------+


Static methods
--------------

Static methods return the underlying function without changes. Calling either
``c.f`` or ``C.f`` is the equivalent of a direct lookup into
``object.__getattribute__(c, "f")`` or ``object.__getattribute__(C, "f")``. As a
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