Why 'self' ?

[Erik Max Francis]

"Schaefer, F." wrote:

> It's been a while that I am working with Python and actually
> the only thing I really do not like about it is 'self' in the
> member function definitions as argument. If it
> has to be there anyway, it is totally redundant to write it.
> 
> So, why is self there ?

Because, in Python, explicit is better than implicit.

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