How do I refer to static class variable in Python?

Question

I have a 'static' class

class A:
 a = 1
 @staticmethod
 def doStuff():
 foo(A.a)

Now I need a derived class

class B(A):
 a = 2

that basically does

 @staticmethod
 def doStuff():
 foo(B.a)

If A would not be a pseudo static class, I could just derive B from A and

foo(self.a)

would do what I want. Is there a way to avoid copying doStuff() into class B and replace foo(A.a) with foo(B.a)? Something along the line of referring to the class in a 'self' way and having class A s doStuff look like

def doStuff():
 foo(class_self.a)

?

• Nils Werner: Does your code even run? Where are your classes? def defines functions, not classes and doStuff isn't even inside a class.

Answer 1

I assume you mean class instead of def in your code.

The answer is not to use a staticmethod, but a classmethod. This would behave exactly as you want.

class A:
 a = 1
 @classmethod
 def doStuff(cls):
 foo(cls.a)
class B(A):
 a = 2