Coincidentally, I changed this in flake8's pep8-naming plugin about a month ago[1], although the change has not yet made it into a release. [1]: https://github.com/PyCQA/pep8-naming/pull/47 On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:

I think it should be `cls` and flake8 etc. should be fixed.

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 11:34 AM, Pim Schellart <p.schellart@princeton.edu

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Dear Python developers,

PEP 8 says:

"Always use self for the first argument to instance methods.

Always use cls for the first argument to class methods.”

But what about metaclasses? PEP 3115 seems to suggest `cls`, and so do many Python books, however tools such as flake8 don’t seem to like it. Is there a consensus opinion, and should PEP 8 be updated?

Kind regards,

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