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On Thu, 4 Sep 2025 19:28:53 -0000 (UTC), Pierre Asselin wrote:

> Now that's *seriously* not-in-the-manual. I won't rely on that
> behavior, plus the expanded documentation is a bit too much,
> but I'm curious as how that interaction between staticmethod()
> and help()/pydoc came about.

Note that the help for Inner1 is listed in the section of the help for 
Outer headed “Static methods defined here:”. So all that’s happening is 
that the help() function is looking for class members that have been put 
through staticmethod(), whatever their type is, and I think recursively 
putting them through their own help() calls.