Python slang

[Michael Torrie]

On 08/05/2016 07:14 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> In English, we refer to ourselves in the first person as I, me, myself, and
> sometimes "self", never as "this". One can say "this one has a hat", for
> example, but it sounds weird, like something the Borg would say about a
> specific Borg unit.

Sadly it has become an epidemic of late for folks to misuse the word,
"myself."  I think it comes from people not wanting to sound
presumptuous when referring to themselves.  It drives me crazy to hear
so many people say something like, "this research was done by myself and
my colleague Bob." No, this research was done by my colleague Bob and I.
 Or this research was just only by me.

However I have no problem with Python programmers using self in their code!