There might have been a time when calling a static method was faster
than a regular method, but that is no longer the case. According to
micro-benchmarks, it is 70% slower in CPython 3.13 and it also makes
executing the code of a class definition slower.
'/?&#' -> '/?#' and '?&#' -> '?#'
According to https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt, URLs are
"organized hierarchically" by using "the slash ("/"), question
mark ("?"), and number sign ("#") characters to delimit components"
