Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 7 Jan 2005 08:10:14 -0800, Luis M. Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The word "self" is not mandatory. You can type anything you want >> instead of self, as long as you supply a keyword in its place (it can >> be "self", "s" or whatever you want). > >You *can*, yes, but please don't, not if there's any chance that >anyone other than you are going to have to look at your code. >'self.whatever' is clearly an instance attribute. 's.whatever' isn't >clearly anything - the reader will have to go off and work out what >the 's' object is.
+1. If there is one coding convention which is constant through the Python world, it's that the first argument to a class method is named "self". Using anything else, while legal, is just being different for the sake of being different. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
