Well I'm with Bruce Eckel - there shouldn't be any argument for the object in the class method parameter list. But since Python 3 was "code-named" 3000 (implying but not delivering big changes... I don't think it required big changes) and since it still has an explicit object parameter it's a given that it's not gonna happen in any revisions.
Bruce said that no other mainstream OO language is explicitly passing the object as a parameter to class methods. But Perl does it as well. I think the label "mainstream OO language" is as valid being applied to Perl as it is to Python. What I would like to have seen added to class definitions was the forced declaration of all object variables in the class outside of methods. I don't like the fact that they have to be, and can be created in any method on the fly. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
