onst* name);
</pre>

  <dl class="function-semantics">
    <dt><b>Requires:</b> <code>name</code> is an <a href=
    "definitions.html#ntbs">ntbs</a> which conforms to Python's <a href=
    "http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/identifiers.html">identifier
    naming rules</a>, and corresponds to a method whose overloads have all
    been defined.</dt>

    <dt><b>Effects:</b> Replaces the existing named attribute <i>x</i> with
    the result of invoking <code>staticmethod(</code><i>x</i><code>)</code>
   