should "self" be changed?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wednesday 27 May 2015 06:45, Mark Lawrence wrote:

> Apart from breaking all the tools that rely on "self" being spelt "self"
> this looks like an excellent idea.

Tools which rely on self being spelled "self" are already broken. It's a 
convention, nothing more, and there are various good reasons for breaking 
the convention:

- metaclasses
- classmethods
- custom descriptors
- nested classes



-- 
Steve