John Salerno wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > >>> A related thing I was wondering about was the use of 'self' in >>> class methods as the first parameter. >> >> >> It's not a related thing, it's the same thing. > > > Oh sorry. I thought the OP was asking about having to use self when > qualifying attributes, or even if he was, I didn't realize it was the > same principle as my question. And just now I was reading about new > style classes, and it also seems like a bit of extra typing to have to > subclass object, but I guess that isn't something that can be implied > right now either.
"self" is conceptually necessary. Notice the similarities between doittoit() and It.doittoit(): py> def doittoit(it): ... print it.whatzit ... py> class It: ... whatzit = 42 ... def doittoit(self): ... print self.whatzit ... py> anit = It() py> doittoit(anit) 42 py> It.doittoit(anit) 42 py> anit.doittoit() 42 If you get this example, I'm pretty sure you will understand "self" and its necessity. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
