Can a Java Static method be visualised as, a function in python + a instance method with the same name( as of function)?

Question

I am trying to understand Static methods in java. I have done a basic python before, so I am trying to visualise the Java's static method in Python.

Is the static method in the code below

class test{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        printHello();
    }

    public static void printHello(){
        System.out.println("This is a Java's static method");
    } 
}

equivalent to this?

def printhello():
    print("It is a printhello function")

class hello():
    def printhello(self):
        print("It is a printhello method of a instance")

As static methods can be accessed without creation of objects, def printhello would work like this.

And when a object is accessing static method in Java, the instance method provided in the python class would work like that.

If not, what would be right visualisation of a java's static method in python.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Here

class Hello:
    def printhello(self):
        ...

you're passing a self reference to the method. This means it is an instance method.
A static method never owns a reference to an instance of its containing class by default.

Python class static methods are defined, usually, using the @staticmethod annotation, and they don't accept self

class Hello:
    @staticmethod
    def printhello():
        ...

So the above would become, in Java

class Hello {
    public static void printhello() {
        ...
    } 
}

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Java doesn't have the concept of first-level functions, so this

def printhello():
    print("It is a printhello function")

isn't really translatable, but it's usually a more idiomatic way of defining free/static functions in Python.

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As you may have understood, answering your question

Is the static method in the code below
...
equivalent to this?

No, it's not equivalent at all.