Of course it's just better organization of the codebase and a less-polluted namespace. Also, if you're writing a library, it may affect the API you give to the

Of course it's just better organization of the codebase and a less-polluted namespace. Also, if you're writing a library, it may affect the API you give to the user. If you move a function to a static method, the end user only needs to import the desired class. But again, they are "usability" benefits. I'm no CPython expert but I don't think that a static method would have noticeably worse (or better) performance than a function.