holger krekel <pyth at devel.trillke.net> wrote: >> I do not find it usefull that I can give it my own name. > > which, in fact, hardly anybody ever does. Other than in an obfuscated python contest, I can't think of any reason why anybody would *ever* use any variable name other than "self" as the first formal parameter of a method. Have you ever seen an example that does?