[Python-3000] Removing 'self' from method definitions

[Greg Ewing]

Ian Bicking wrote:

> Class.some_method(self, blah) seems like a corner case.  How often do 
> you do that?

Very frequently, when calling inherited __init__ methods.

> If it is calling a superclass method, then super(Class, 
> self).some_method() should be used

That's a matter of opinion. In the case of __init__
methods, most of the time it simply doesn't work,
because different __init__ methods rarely have the
same signature.

In other cases, so far in my code I've found exactly
zero use cases for super(). I've considered using it
a couple of times, but changed my mind when I realised
that it wouldn't do what I wanted, and it was better
to redesign my inheritance hierarchy so that I could
use plain inherited calls instead.

So I would never tell anyone that they "should" be
using super().

--
Greg