Message3951

Can you explain why you changed the test case to be both static methods?
The original posting was an __object__ method hiding a static method. So
two static methods is really a completely different case, one which has
worked fine all along and is not relevant to this bug.

In Java I can do this:
   System.out.println(URL.class.toString());
which prints 
java.net.URL

How would you call the equivalent in jython? 

If you try URL.toString() you get an error. You can't create a URL
instance and then call toString() because then you will get the toString
on the URL instance instead of the class.

Perhaps there is not a good way with python syntax to fix this in
jython, but I would humbly suggest that his bug should not be closed
based on your two static method test.