How to handle the pylint message: Warning: Method could be a function

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Being new to Python, I decided to get some feedback on a class I'd written ASAP so I ran it against pylint. Is the message it gave "Warning: Method could be a function" telling me that it would be better to move this method out of the class because it doesn't use any instance variables? In c# I would make this a static method. What's the most pythonic thing to do here?

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