call a protected static method on an instance of a class in python

In Python, calling a protected static method on an instance of a class involves using the class name to call the static method directly. The protected static method can be called on an instance of the class by passing the instance as the first argument to the static method.

Here is an example code snippet to illustrate how to call a protected static method on an instance of a class in Python:

main.py
class MyClass:
    @staticmethod
    def _protected_static_method(param1, param2):
        # implementation
        pass

my_instance = MyClass()
my_instance._protected_static_method(param1, param2) # throws AttributeError

MyClass._protected_static_method(my_instance, param1, param2) # works
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In the above code snippet, the _protected_static_method() method is a protected static method of the MyClass class, which takes two parameters. When we try to call this method on an instance of the class using dot notation, we get an AttributeError because we are trying to access a protected method from outside the class.

However, when we call the same method using the class name and passing the instance as the first argument, the method gets called successfully. This is because protected methods can be accessed from within the class and its sub-classes, and by passing the instance as the first argument, we are effectively calling the method from within the class.