Do I always have to write "self." ?

[Michael Hudson]

"Louis M. Pecora" <pecora at anvil.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

> In the above I would describe things as follows (am I right or wrong?):
> 
> (1) data and self.data point to the same object, a list, so when a
> method is called it is the method that works on that instance of a list
> and either data or self.data will append 'foo' to the same list object.
> 
> (2) when you do more=more+1 an new object (the more+1 value) is created
> and more then points to it and no longer to the old value of self.more. 
> The latter still exists and points to the original 10 object.
> 
> (3) Similar story here for interesting where a new object
> interesting[10:] is created and interesting is "switched" to point to
> it.  self.interesting still points tohe "foo" object.
> 
> I hope I got that right, because they have tripped me up a few times.

Yes!  That's right.  Simple isn't it (once you understand, anyway)?

Cheers,
M.

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