noob question: "TypeError" wrong number of args

[Edward Elliott]

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> Edward Elliott wrote:
>> I can prove that assertion too: make a simple text processor that reads
>> Python source code and outputs the same source code with only one change:
>> insert the string 'self" as the first parameter of every "def
>> somemethod". Next run the output source code with the normal Python
> 
> Okay, let's start with writing a simple text processor for this little
> mess::

I didn't even try to wade through that morass of monocharacter variables. 
Anyone wanna summarize the point of that code?