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Hey, welcome back.

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In this video, you'll learn about static methods.

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Let's create a static method in the reservation ticket class.

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To create a static method, you use the static method decorator.

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A followed by the definition of the method.

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Let's say, convert.

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Now you see, that poncho didn't even suggest me to use a self argument.

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So static methods do not get a self argument or a c else argument.

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A static method is like a function, so it doesn't have any reference to the class.

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Or it's instance, let's say we have a mount as a variable.

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And return amount.

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Times 1.2.

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Now, what is this, anyway?

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Well, let's imagine that.

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We we are generating the ticket, but we need some utility function to convert the price from euros

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to USD.

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So this is some sort of utility function, right?

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But since this function is somehow related to producing the ticket, because we want to have that converted

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price inside the ticket, then it makes sense to have that method inside the class so that later on

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you can basically call that static methods using reservation ticket that converts.

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And here you'd give the amount like ten.

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Perhaps you store this in variable converted and then you can use the variable somewhere else in the

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code.

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But let's just print it out in here, print, convert it.

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And so we get 12.

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So ten times 1.2, we get 12.

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So that would be an example of a static method.

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Now, the distinction between static methods and class methods is a bit blurred, but usually you won't

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use static methods when you want to do some utilities like as we had here, converting that number.

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So conversions are usually a very used case.

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And so this method here is less associated with its class compared to this class methods.

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Both class methods and static methods are rarely used compared to instance methods, but it's good to

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know what they are.

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So I hope this makes sense.

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And in the next video you learn about magic methods which are very interesting.

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So I'll see you there.