Attack a sacred Python Cow

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Marcus.CM <marcus at internetnowasp.net>wrote:

> Well after reading some of these posts on "sacred python cow" on the "self"
> , i would generally feel that most programmers
> who started with C++/Java would find it odd. And its true, i agree
> completely there should not be a need to put "self" into every single
> member function. If you were writing an application and one of your classes
> adds the same variable to each of its member function you would do away with
> it too.
> What could be done instead is :-
>
> 1. python should hardcode the keyword "self". So whenever this keyword is
> used, it would automatically implied that it is
> referring to a class scope variable. This would be similar to how the
> "this" keyword is used in C++.
>
> 2. Omit self from the parameter.
>
> class Abc :
>     def  DoSomething (a,b,c) :
>           # class variable
>           self.somevar = a
>           self.someblar = b
>           self.somec = c
>           somevar = a * b  # local variable
>
>
>

So, what happens in this case, using your Abc class from before?


def DoTheSameThing(abc, a, b, c) :
    abc.somevar = a
    abc.someblar = b
    abc.somec = c
    somevar = a * b

Abc.DoSomething = DoTheSameThing

Would methods defined this way never have access to the class instance?


>
>
> Russ P. wrote:
>
>> On Jul 26, 2:25 pm, Terry Reedy
>>
>>
>>> There is a lot of code you have not seen.  Really.  In informal code I
>>> use 's' and 'o' for 'self' and 'other'.  I don't usually post such
>>> because it is not considered polite.  So you have seen a biased sample
>>> of the universe.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You take the name down to a single letter. As I suggested in an
>> earlier post on this thread, why not take it down to zero letters? You
>> could if Python accepted something like
>>
>> class Whatever:
>>
>>    def fun( , cat):
>>
>>        .cat = cat
>>
>> This is even better than the single-character name, not only because
>> it is shorter, but also because there is no question that you are
>> referring to "self." No need to look back at the method signature to
>> verify that.
>>
>> For those who don't like the way the empty first argument looks, maybe
>> something like this could be allowed:
>>
>>    def fun( ., cat):
>>
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>>
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