On 8/31/2011 10:35 AM, T. Goodchild wrote:
But one of the things that bugs me is the requirement that all class
methods have 'self' as their first parameter. On a gut level, to me
this seems to be at odds with Python’s dedication to simplicity.
Actually, it is a consequence of Python's dedication to simplicity. A
method is simply a function that is an attribute of a class. (This is
even clearer in Py 3.) Hence, there is no special syntax for methods.
Consider
def double(obj): return 2*obj.value
class C:
def __init__(self, val):
self.value = val
c = C(3)
C.double = double
c.doub = double
# not c.double as that would mask access to C.double in c.double() below
print(double(c), C.double(c), c.double(), c.doub(c))
# 6 6 6 6
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