Calling static/class Python method from Perl

[Subir Sarkar]

Hi all,

How can I call a static/class Python method from Perl correctly without
having to create an object first? The following simplified example 
illustrates
the problem. In reality the MyClass resides in a Python module 
along-with many other classes.

use Inline Python;

my $c = new MyClass('TEST');
print $c->aStaticMethod, "\n";
print $c->aClassMethod, "\n";

# How can I do that using a syntax
# similar to MyClass.aStaticMethod()

__END__
__Python__

class MyClass:
 def __init__(self, name):
   self.name = name
 def aStaticMethod():
   return 'This is a static method of MyClass.'
 def aClassMethod(cls):
   return 'This is a class method: %s' % repr(cls)
 aStaticMethod = staticmethod(aStaticMethod)
 aClassMethod = classmethod(aClassMethod)

Thanks,
- Subir