Python and static class methods

In the documentation (http://www.swig.org/Doc4.0/Python.html#Python_nn20
) it says "Prior to Python-2.2, Python classes had no support for static 
methods". The example it shows has several ways to access the static member:

 >>> example.Spam_foo()    # Spam::foo()
 >>> s = example.Spam()
 >>> s.foo()               # Spam::foo() via an instance
 >>> example.Spam.foo()    # Spam::foo(). Python-2.2 only

Python 2.2 was a long time ago, and I'd like to exclude the 
example.Spam_foo version from my Python interfaces. It's not needed and 
isn't what users familiar with the C++ library being wrapped are 
familiar with. (And the last line in the example should say "Python-2.2 
onwards".)

Is there a way to suppress the generation of example.Spam_foo?
-- 
Jim Easterbrook                 <http://www.jim-easterbrook.me.uk/>