Are static class variables possible in Python

Question

I'm looking for a string.contains or string.indexof method in Python.

I want to do:

if not somestring.contains("blah"):
   continue

Answer 1

Variables declared inside the class definition, but not inside a method are class or static variables:

>>> class MyClass:
...     i = 3
...
>>> MyClass.i
3 
  

If I point out, this creates a class-level I variable, but this is distinct from any instance-level i variable, so you could have

>>> m = MyClass()
>>> m.i = 4
>>> MyClass.i, m.i
>>> (3, 4)

This is different from C++ and Java, but not so different from C#, where a static member can't be accessed using a reference to an instance.