Paul Rubin <phr-n2002b at NOSPAMnightsong.com> wrote in message news:<7xsn2wyrr2.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>... > > Yes, it seems clumsy to me. See how error prone it is: your __init__ > function arg list forgot to mention 'self'. Exactely! Why self? This part of the python syntax is clumsy :-) Jesper