I like the explicit "self", personally. It helps distinguish class methods from functions. When I see a "self" I think "A-ha, a class method". Of course, I could tell that from just the indentation and following that back to the class declaration, but as a quick reference I find it helpful. Besides, none of the proposals have sufficinetly dealt with lexical scope without introducing a lot of costly checks which would also hide the complexity of the process (and thereby, most likely, lead to abuse and bad practices).
Regards, Jordan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
