Another try at Python's selfishness

[Jens Theisen]

n.estner wrote:

> Yes, I 100% agree to that point!
> But the point is, the current situation is not newbie-friendly (I can
> tell, I am a newbie): I declare a method with 3 parameters but when I
> call it I only pass 2 parameters. That's confusing. If I declare a
> member variable, I write: "self.x  = ValueForX", why can't I be equally
> explicit for declaring member functions?

For someone new to OO in general it might as well be something good, so he  
realises that there actually really is a hidden parameter. After all,  
there is something to understand with "self", and this discrapency between  
the number of arguments and parameters puts newbies to it.

Jens