how to give an object as argument for a method

[Greg Ewing]

Marco Herrn wrote:
> 
> If a have a method with the defininion 'f(self)' I call this method only
> with 'f()'. So the declaration doesn't look the same like the call.

There are times where you *do* explicitly pass
in self, mainly when calling inherited methods,
e.g.

  class C(D):
    def __init__(self):
      ...
      D.__init__(self) # Initialise my base class
      ...

So if "self" were implicit, then *this* would be
a case where the call didn't match the definition.
You can't win!

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