[Tutor] why "self" in methods?

[Chris Lott]

Alan Gauld wrote:

 >>>>>class SomeClass(object):
 >>
 >>...     def sayHello(self):
 >>...         print "hi, I'm SomeClass"
 >>...
 >
 >
 > But sayHello is not unbound in the sense mentioned in the OP
 > (which actually may not be the right term!). What I was really
 > asking was what use (if any) do methods without a self parameter have?

The OP (me) is completely clueless at the moment, but I was asking about 
creating a method such as def noSelf() in your code below:

 >>>>class SomeClass(object):
 >
 > ...     def sayHello(self):
 > ...         print "hi, I'm SomeClass"
 > ...     def noSelf():
 > ...         print "I'm selfless"

My original question was why, if it lacked a parameter, it didn't just 
automatically take the parameter self...  that they can be created but 
not used doesn't seem very Pythonic :)

c
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Chris Lott