Re: [Edu-sig] spinning 'self'

2007-08-14 Thread John Zelle
On Monday 13 August 2007 11:30 pm, kirby urner wrote: On 8/13/07, John Zelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would quibble about self not doing any work (you need it to access its attributes), but I understand the point you are making. Again, though this makes things seem a bit more mysterious

Re: [Edu-sig] spinning 'self'

2007-08-14 Thread kirby urner
[ after two consecutive trips to Winterhaven as younger daughter, like older sis, is studying theater but forgot her script... -- KU ] Yes, I agree. What's special about 'self' is simply what you mentioned above: it gets passed silently and you need take special care to have a variable

[Edu-sig] spinning 'self'

2007-08-13 Thread kirby urner
Python is remarkably liberal in its design, in that 'self' is not a keyword. You're free to use other names for this important place in memory. Yet there's still self-imposed discipline (another way of saying 'self discipline'), such that we tend to all use 'self' anyway, by convention (but

Re: [Edu-sig] spinning 'self'

2007-08-13 Thread John Zelle
On Monday 13 August 2007 3:43 pm, kirby urner wrote: Python is remarkably liberal in its design, in that 'self' is not a keyword. You're free to use other names for this important place in memory. Yet there's still self-imposed discipline (another way of saying 'self discipline'), such that