Experimenting with static methods in Python

I was writing a class to construct CURL requests in Python. I decided to experiment with making one of the methods static. To do this, simply place a “@staticmethod” decorator before the method declaration.

class CurlCommand(object): ‘Class for constructing Curl Commands’

@staticmethod
def constructStatic(requestMethod, header, userName, passWord, url):
    command = "curl"

    # Username and password
    command = command + " -u " + userName + ":" + passWord

    # Header
    command = command + " --header " + "\'" + header + "\'"

    # Request method
    command = command + " -X " + "\"" + requestMethod + "\""

    # URL
    command = command + " " + url

    return command

The static method can then be called with:

CurlCommand.constructStatic(requestMethod, header, userName, passWord, url)

Ultimately, I decided not to make this a static class, but no doubt I’ll make use of this Python feature when it comes to constants and other constructs that it makes sense to use statically.