Is it advisable to replace 'self' with '_' or 'I' or something shorter?

[Erik Max Francis]

"Jonathan P." wrote:

> One compromise I can think of would be to just use 'self'
> all the time and in the isolated cases where it would
> lead to unbearably long (and unreadable) lines, create an
> alias variable for the offending attribute.

_And_ always do that in local scope.  Already you see this done,
especially if you have to translate involved mathematical equations to
code; you use shorter versions of the names so the expressions don't
become enormous.  But in the parameter declaration, the self argument
should always be nothing other than `self'.

As others have pointed out, there are good, solid reasons for not using
`_' in any case -- it's used in internationalization, the Python
interactive interpreter uses it for the last calculated expression, etc.

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