[Tutor] Classes, methods and self

[Justin Heath]

I am going through some various class documentation (Learning to Program 
and Learning Python) and I cannot seem to understand why self is needed 
in a method declaration. I "believe" that I understand what self does 
(i.e. connects itself to the current object instance). However, what I 
do not understand is why you have to explicitly declare self in the 
argument list of a method. I hope that was clear. Can anyone clarify 
this for me?

Thanks again,
Justin