Is it advisable to replace 'self' with '_' or 'I' or something shorter?

[Erik Max Francis]

Dan Schmidt wrote:

> I used to use _, but I decided to be a good citizen and use self these
> days.  My main problem with self is not that it takes more time to
> type but that it looks like just another word when I'm scanning code,
> which distracts me from the 'real' variables.  So I modifed my emacs
> python-mode so that self is displayed in a different color, and I can
> deal with it a lot better now.

Try getting the latest version of python-mode.el.  It already highlights
`self' in this way.

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