Method is not declared static

Reports any methods that do not require a class instance creation and can be made static.

Example:

class MyClass(object):
    def my_method(self, x):
        print(x)

If a Make function from method quick-fix is applied, the code changes to:

def my_method(x):
    print(x)


class MyClass(object):
    pass

If you select the Make method static quick-fix, the @staticmethod decorator is added:

class MyClass(object):
    @staticmethod
    def my_method(x):
        print(x)

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

PyMethodMayBeStatic

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Python

Inspection ID: PyMethodMayBeStaticInspection

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection PyMethodMayBeStatic

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	CLion 2025.2, DataSpell 2025.2, IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, PyCharm 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025