confused about self, why not a reserved word?

[J. Cliff Dyer]

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 04:57 -0700, globalrev wrote:
> class Foo(object):
> 	def Hello(self):
> 		print "hi"
> 
> object is purple, ie some sort of reserved word.
> 
> why is self in black(ie a normal word) when it has special powers.
> replacing it with sel for example will cause an error when calling
> Hello.
> 

Wow.  No it won't.  sel is perfectly legal.  I've seen s used on
occasion, and of course metaclass methods often use cls.

Direct ^C^V from my python interpreter:

$ python
Python 2.4.3 (#1, Dec 11 2006, 11:38:52) 
[GCC 4.1.1 20061130 (Red Hat 4.1.1-43)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> class Foo(object):
...     def Hello(sel):
...             print "hi"
... 
>>> f = Foo()
>>> f.Hello()
hi
>>> 

Can you paste an example that breaks for you?


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