noob question: "TypeError" wrong number of args

[Ben Finney]

Edward Elliott <nobody at 127.0.0.1> writes:

> As long as we're trotting out aphorisms

The ones I quoted were from Python.

    >>> import this

> how about DRY: Don't Repeat Yourself.  The rule couldn't be clearer:
> don't repeat your SELF. ;) Yet that's exactly what explicitly
> declaring self does, forces me to needlessly repeat what everyone
> already knows: methods take the object instance as their first
> parameter.

You've misunderstood "don't repeat yourself". It advocates *one*
definition of any given thing in the code. You are advocating *zero*
definitions of 'self' in the code.

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Ben Finney