Attack a sacred Python Cow

[Jordan]

Of course not.

I just think Explicit is better than Implicit is taken seriously by a
large segment the Python community as a guiding principle, and overall
its influence does more harm than good.

Clearly self being in every argument list was a decision arrived at
long before the Zen was ever coined. Its merely an example of what I
feel is a shortcoming in the conventional 'pythonic' approach to
thinking about problems.

The reluctance to admit that the __eq__ behaviour is a poor design
choice is further evidence; its something (unlike self) that quite
conceivably could be changed, and should be changed, but its somehow
seen (by certain people) as the way that Python should do things.