In article <8qijsgfgu...@mid.dfncis.de>, Frank Dierkes <frank.dier...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Naming the first parameter self is only a convention. It could be any > other name, too. But it shouldn't. The use of "self" is so universal that using anything else will just make your code more difficult for other people to understand. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list