Types of methods in python

There are different types of methods are there while defining a class, they are

1. Instance method
2. Class method
3. Static method

Instance Method

Instance attributes are those attributes that are not shared by objects. Every object has its own copy of the instance attribute, let us see an example

class Student:
 def __init__(self,name):
  self.name = name
 def printinfo(self):
  self.city = 'delhi'
  print('my name is {} and from {}'.format(self.name,self.city))
 def printcity(self):
  print('my city is ', self.city)
stud1 = Student('tom')
stud1.printinfo()
my name is tom and from delhi

class method

It is one of the rarely used methods, where we use cls instead of self and we use class variables @ classmethod →constructor which we use as a decorator let us see an example

class Student:
 Studentcount = 10
 @classmethod
 def printcount(cls):
  print('class is having {} number of students'.format(cls.Studentcount))
class is having 10 number of students

static method

In this method, we can pass generic variables in the place of self where we can use it like defining functions normally, as you have to pass the arguments while calling it.

class Student:
 @staticmethod
 def printname(x):
  print(‘student name is {}{}’.format(x))
Student.printname('sam')
student name is Mr.sam