Why you need to use @staticmethod in your Python code and the benefits of it.

One of the benefits of Python is indeed its flexibility when coding because is such a simple language it allows you to code it in so many different ways.

But knowing the details of Python can improve your code so much, not only the clarity but the usage of your code!

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Python has many decorators that have the intention of doing exactly this, improve your code, make it more readable, maintainable, and reusable, let’s see how the @staticdecorator can help us with it.

How we can improve our Python code?

Ok, what we want to is to be able to use functions that either can be accessed using an instance, or we can access it directly without the need to instantiate that object, let’s use this sample code:

class Calendar:
    
    def __init__(self, date):
        self.year = date.year
        self.month = date.month
        self.day = date.day
        self.weekday = date.weekday()
    
    
    def is_leap_year(self):
        return self.year % 400 == 0 or 
               (self.year % 4 == 0 and self.year % 100 != 0)
    
    
    def is_weekend(self):
        return self.weekday > 4

Here we have a calendar object, and a calendar would need to use a date to be able to fulfill…