[Python-ideas] Mitigating 'self.' Method Pollution

[Ben Finney]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> writes:

> Personally, I don't think of "self" as pollution at all. It's nice and
> explicit and helps readability.

+1.

All the complaints that I see about “pollution” or “extra work” or etc.,
seem IME to be accompanied by a dislike of Python's “explicit is better
than implicit” principle.

Since I think that principle is essential to Python's readability and
maintainability, I think that removing explicit ‘self’ would tangibly
*harm* readability and maintainability of Python code.

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Ben Finney