The new pycharm release (3.1.3 community edition) proposes to convert the methods that don't work with the current object's state to static.
What is the practical reason for that? Some kind of micro-performance(-or-memory)-optimization?
PyCharm "thinks" that you might have wanted to have a static method, but you forgot to declare it to be static (using the @staticmethod
decorator).
PyCharm proposes this because the method does not use self
in its body and hence does not actually change the class instance. Hence the method could be static, i.e. callable without passing a class instance or without even having created a class instance.