Why the 'self' argument?

[Bengt Richter]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 22:51:10 +0200, "Michael Peuser" <mpeuser at web.de> wrote:

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>"Grzegorz Staniak" <gstaniak at inka.zagiel.pl>
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>> I'm a newbie Python user, a systems administrator - I've been trying
>> to switch from Perl to Python for administrative tasks - and one thing
>> I cannot understand so far is why I need the special 'self' (or anything
>> esle) argument in class method definitions.
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>You probably do not mean "class methods"; this a technical term in OOP.
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I suspect the OP meant "class (method definitions)," not "(class method)" definitions." ;-)

Re "self," there must be a FAQ entry, but I'm too lazy to look for it.

Regards,
Bengt Richter