Why self?

[Brian Quinlan]

Robb Schecter wrote:

> 2. I'm down w/ polymorphism, man!  I'm all over over it.  There's a
big
> difference between type and class, for starters, and 'type' as in
> 'implements an interface' is what I'm talking about.

There is no interface concept in Python. Some attributes/methods exist
and work as expected, others don't. And the difference between type and
class depends on the language. In Smalltalk there is no difference. In
Python the difference is disappearing.

Cheers,
Brian