class Foo():
    def amethod():
        print("If this were Python, I'd be impossible to call.")
    @staticmethod
    def astatic():
        print("these are special now")

# This doesn't work because amethod is unbound and needs an instance.
try:
    Foo.amethod()
except as exception:
    print(exception.arg)
# This works
Foo.amethod(Foo())
# This should too?
Foo.astatic()