Fernando M. wrote: > Hi, > > i was just wondering about the need to put "self" as the first > parameter in every method a class has because, if it's always needed, > why the obligation to write it? couldn't it be implicit? > > Or is it a special reason for this being this way? > > Thanks. > The reason can be found in the output from the python statement "import this". Explicit is better than implicit.
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