Why self?

[Erik Max Francis]

Jesper Olsen wrote:

> Why is it necessary to use a "self" argument to class methods in
> python?
> 
> To me it seems a bit like doing object oriented programming in C...
> 
> Why not make it implicit like "this" in C++?

Explicit is better than implicit.

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