why is self not passed to id()?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Ruediger wrote:

> Executing following little program gives me an TypeError.
> 
> What makes me wonder is that foo does get an argument passed while bar
> doesn't. Can anyone explain why??????

 >>> id
<built-in function id>
 >>> lambda x: id(x)
<function <lambda> at 0x00C07C30>

any special reason why you're not using Python to write Python programs, 
btw?

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