For a language-agnostic consideration of the design decision, see What is the advantage of having this/self pointer mandatory explicit?. To close debugging questions where OP omitted a …

Oct 18, 2016 · Are you supposed to use self when referencing a member function in Python (within the same module)? More generally, I was wondering when it is required to use self, not …

Feb 11, 2014 · But people like to use self, as it has now become a bit of a convention. Here's a simple instance method accessing an instance variable in both Python and Java: Python: …

If you view it that way, obj is the first argument to the function, which traditionally is named self in the parameter list. (You can, in fact, name it something else, and your code will work correctly, …

Why doesn't __init__ seem to be called, and what does this exception mean? My understanding is that self is passed to the constructor and methods automatically. What am I doing wrong here? …

Jul 8, 2017 · Python adds the self argument to the list for you; you do not need to include it when you call the methods. if you didn't provide self in init method then you will get an error

self.y = y But in some other languages, such as C#, you have a reference to the object that the method is bound to with the "this" keyword without declaring it as an argument in the method …

9 First, Python's self is not a keyword, it's a coding convention, the same as Python's cls. Guido has written a really detailed and valuable article about the origin of Python's support for class, …

Feb 23, 2009 · In Python 2, we were required to call super like this with the defining class's name and self, but we'll avoid this from now on because it's redundant, slower (due to the name …

Mar 8, 2011 · It's normal to have explicit self's all over your Python code. If you try tricks to avoid that you will be making your code difficult to read for other Python programmers (and …