On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 18:26 -0400, Kent Johnson wrote: > Chris Hengge wrote: > > The deitel book has a note on page 229: > > Failure to specify an object reference (usually called self) as the > > first parameter in a method definition causes fatal logic errors when > > the method is invoked at runt-ime. > > > > Now I've got methods all over the place among several scripts that don't > > use self, and each other works fine as I'd expect. > > You have to distinguish between a method (a function that is part of a > class definition) and a standalone function (not part of any class). > Python allows both. Standalone functions don't have a 'self' parameter; > class methods always do (you can give it a different name but if you > omit it you will get a runtime error when you call the method). > > Kent > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
So just make sure I always declare self for methods (functions in classes)? Is this unique to python? or do some other languages already include self, and just hide it from the programmer? _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
