Doh! Yes, of course 'self' is only a scoped name within the body of the method, not in the signature.
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Alexander Belopolsky < alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 3:58 PM, David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > >> It's more verbose, but you can also spell it now as: >> >> class A: >> def __add__(self, other: type(self)) -> type(self): ... >> > > No, you can't: > > >>> class A: > ... def __add__(self, other: type(self)) -> type(self): ... > ... > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > File "<stdin>", line 2, in A > NameError: name 'self' is not defined > -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
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