On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Westley Martínez <aniko...@gmail.com> wrote: > I understand that in an object method the first argument in the object > itself, called self. However, it doesn't have to be called self, and can be > called anything. So my question is why is it called self and not this like > from C++ and Java. It's kind of a silly question, but one that I'm curious > about nevertheless.
The idea of requiring references to attributes and methods of self to be explicit comes from Modula-3; likely the naming convention follows the same lineage. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
