Explicit Frustration of the Self

[Erik Max Francis]

DeadWisdom wrote:

> Another thought: how OO is Python?  It allows me to create Objects, I
> guess.  But do these objects really have methods?  I don't think so.
> Not with the way self acts now.  Right now, you are effectively,
> creating functions and then calling them with the first argument
> outside of the parenthesis, and to the left of the function, and a
> dot.

That the self is explicit doesn't mean that Python is suddenly not
object oriented.  Hint:  Practically all implementations of object
oriented languages do it the same way, it's just the self (or this)
argument is implicit.

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