Proposal for removing self

[Brent W. Hughes]

When doing object-oriented stuff, it bothers me to have to type "self" so
many times.  I propose that Python allow the programmer to optionally type
".variable" instead of "self.variable" to mean the same thing.  Of course,
the interpreter would have to be more careful about detecting floats that
begin with just a period as in ".5".  What are your thoughts?