Do not use self from a static method :-).

gistapi/gistapi.py

@@ -196,19 +196,19 @@ class Gists(object):
     """Gist API wrapper"""
 
     def __init__(self, username=None, token=None):
-        # Token-based Authentication is unnecesary, gist api still in alpha
+        # Token-based Authentication is unnecessary, gist api still in alpha
         self._username = username
         self._token = token
 
     @staticmethod
     def fetch_by_user(name):
         """Return a list of public Gist objects owned by
-        the given GitHub username"""
+        the given GitHub username."""
 
         _url = GIST_JSON % 'gists/%s' % name
 
         # Return a list of Gist objects
-        return [Gist(json=g, username=self._username, token=self._token)
+        return [Gist(json=g)
                 for g in json.load(urllib2.urlopen(_url))['gists']]