Newbie: Classes
Jason Kratz
jkratz1 at hotmail.com
Sun Oct 26 22:12:55 EST 2003
KefX wrote:
> All methods have 'self' as the first parameter. The actual name is unimportant,
> but out of convention, practically everybody who's anybody uses 'self'.
>
> What it is is an instance of a class. In C++ and Java, the same concept is
> expressed with the 'this' keyword; Python just makes it explicit in having it
> passed into the function.
>
If I remember correctly Java also passes 'this' into funtions but its
done implicitly. Its there but you just don't see it.
Jason
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