I love "shelf" BUT

[alex23]

On Jul 28, 12:46 pm, Sera Jackson <q2w3q... at gmail.com> wrote:
> ok, I know its an over discussed topic. Althought I understand why it
> is there I cant constantly see it in my argument list in parenthesis.
>
> can someone give me an insight of the cons of a syntax like this:
> class Class:
>     def self.method(arguments):
>         etc, etc
>
> In other words def method(self, arg1, arg2 ,argN) becomes->  def
> self.method(arg1, arg2 ,argN)

Did you bother to check the group? You would've noticed it's being
discussed -right now-:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/a5fa8ff0ffadd6ee/60e9dd04719e439a

And this -exact- suggestion has been turned down by Guido:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-April/000793.html