Hello, I have written a PEP, and I was warned by none other than Mr. Van Rossum himself that it would be controversial at best. Well, here goes anyway. First, let me introduce myself. I am an aerospace engineer, and I am using Python to develop a research prototype of a conflict alerting aid for air traffic controllers. It is intended to replace the current legacy system which has been operational since the 1970s. I have also developed a free Python package to represent physical scalars in a unique manner that can be as efficient as built-in numeric types. I am using it extensively in my conflict alerting aid. You can read about it in the current edition of The Python Papers at http://pythonpapers.org or on my website at http://RussP.us/scalar.htm . Now to the PEP. Let me start by saying that I fully understand the history and controversy regarding the explicit use of "self" in Python. I am not going to say that it was a mistake, nor am I going to say that the first argument of a class instance method should not refer to the instance for which it is called. What I will say is that I think Python syntax could be significantly simplified with the simple little convention that I am proposing. All I ask is that you carefully read my proposal before you reply. Thank you. Russ