Why self?
Lou Pecora
pecora at anvil.nrl.navy.mil
Mon Jul 8 14:58:06 EDT 2002
In article <3D29CE9D.4000802 at onsitetech.com>, Robb Shecter
<rs at onsitetech.com> wrote:
> I completely agree, but I think the situation's even worse than you
> described: A'typical' case of standard OO programming is made the most
> tedious to write: References to instance variables from methods:
>
> self.__velocity = self.__factor1 * self.__factor2
>
> etc. I find this totally unreadable (7 extra characters per referenced
> instance variable).
You know, as much as I LOVE Python I got to agree this one bugs me,
too. I wish the scoping rules could be changed to default to self
first, then local and the rest of the order _without_ the "self." part.
Solution? Sometimes I just use the underscore "_" as the self object
reference. That shortens the name. You don't have to use the word
"self." viz.,
# Within the object definition, x and z are object variables ...
def func(_):
y=_.x * _.z
return y
Not the best solution, but saves typing.
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