[Tutor] Old School

[Dinesh B Vadhia]

I belong to the Old School where getting my head around OO is just one big pain.  I write software by modularization executed as a set of functions - and it works (some call this functional programming!).  Whenever I review Python books (eg. Lutz's excellent Programming Python, 3ed) the code is laid out with Def's followed by Classes (with their own Def's) which is as it should be.  But, the Def's on their own (ie. not in Classes) are all of the form:

> def abc(self):
        <do something>
        return <return list>

or,

> def xyz(self, <parameter list>):
        <do something>
        return <return list>

I don't use 'self' in my def's - should I?  If so, why?

Thanks!

Dinesh

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