"self" vs other names

sebastien s.keim at laposte.net
Fri Sep 28 11:21:42 EDT 2001


> > I'd mention the possibility.
> not that I subscribe to this, but another common form is simply 's'.  You get
> things like 's.dict' or 's.pid'.

I personnaly prefer stu, because this give me 'stu.pid' ;-)

I think, that coherence is more important than 2 characters more or
less.
If you want to use s. or me., why not ?
But if I had to read your code, I'd find you kind to follow the Python
habit's to call self 'self' because:
	- I could use 'self' in grep search in both your and my code 
	- this is the name my brain is trained to, and it is very tired (just
look before)...



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