What is "self"?

[Roy Smith]

Ron Adam <rrr at ronadam.com> wrote:
> You can actually call it anything you want but "self" is sort of a 
> tradition.

That's true, but I think needs to be said a bit more emphatically.  There's 
no reason to call it anything other than "self" and a newcomer to the 
language would be well advised to not try and be creative here.  Using 
"self" is virtually universal, and calling it anything else will just lead 
to confusion by other people who have to read your code.