Why self?

[Delaney, Timothy]

> Louis> This one is lost on me.  Sorry, I'm not operating at your
> Louis> level.  What is the point?  I advocated initializing object
> Louis> variables in a mandatory __init__ statment.  So you should have
> Louis> added
> 
> Louis>        def __init__(self):
> Louis>            name=None

Why are you assigning None to the local variable "name", and then not using
it?

That's the basic problem here - there is no way of knowing if "name" is
supposed to be a local variable which will be used only in __init__, or
whether you want to create an instance name.

Also, how would you then create proxy objects? If you *must* know the name
of all attributes, you can't delegate "everything except what I want to
intercept".

Tim Delaney