convert function to class method?

Hi Marcel, sorry for the late reply.

No, unfortunately, there is no such feature at the moment. The obvious way to create such methods is to turn them into stateless @staticmethods, but the latter don't seem to be used that frequently in Python as e.g. in Java. Probably, that's the reason why this functionality hasn't been considered before.

Just to add a reason for this... in my case, the function receives the object into which I want to move the function. It then works on that instance of the object. I'd rather just have the function be a method in that object allowing me to just work on the object directly.

Here is my current function signature...

def turn_matching_rules_into_where_clause(table_being_matched: Table, template: Template, matching_rules: []) -> str:

table_being_matched is really just a variable in my TBL class. So, I'd rather just make this a method of my TBL class.

Ben

BTW There is a feature request about this functionality -- PY-34363.