Creating a static class with no instances

Question

All of the tutorials I see online show how to create classes with __init__ constructor methods so one can declare objects of that type, or instances of that class.<

Answer 1

You could use a classmethod or staticmethod

class Paul(object):
    elems = []

    @classmethod
    def addelem(cls, e):
        cls.elems.append(e)

    @staticmethod
    def addelem2(e):
        Paul.elems.append(e)

Paul.addelem(1)
Paul.addelem2(2)

print(Paul.elems)

classmethod has advantage that it would work with sub classes, if you really wanted that functionality.

module is certainly best though.