Unification of Methods and Functions

[Greg Ewing]

David MacQuigg wrote:
> Explanation of Instance Variables in Python
> -------------------------------------------
> """  Some of the variables inside the functions in a class have a
> self. prefix.  This is to distinguish local variables in the function
> from "instance variables".  These instance variables will be found
> when the function is called...

Just because a particular writer uses more waffle than
necessary to explain something about Python doesn't mean
the thing being explained is complicated enough to require
that many words.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg