Why 'self' ?

[Fredrik Lundh]

in a post that didn't reach my server, "Schaefer, F." wrote:
>
>It's been a while that I am working with Python and actually
>the only thing I really do not like about it is 'self' in the
>member function definitions as argument. If it
>has to be there anyway, it is totally redundant to write it.
>
>So, why is self there ?

did you check the FAQ?

    http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html#6.7

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