Oct 18, 2016 · Are you supposed to use self when referencing a member function in Python (within the same module)? More generally, I was wondering when it is required to use self, not just for methods …

Jul 8, 2017 · In this case, there are some benefits to allowing this: 1) Methods are just functions that happen defined in a class, and need to be callable either as bound methods with implicit self passing …

For a language-agnostic consideration of the design decision, see What is the advantage of having this/self pointer mandatory explicit?. To close debugging questions where OP omitted a self …

9 First, Python's self is not a keyword, it's a coding convention, the same as Python's cls. Guido has written a really detailed and valuable article about the origin of Python's support for class, and in that …

See Why do I get 'takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)' when trying to call a method? for the opposite problem.

Jul 4, 2020 · I think it is setting the id for each list item as each item in the numbers array? Correct me if wrong - but is each id being set as whatever Int is in each entry of the numbers array? If so, then …

Feb 11, 2014 · Moving further: Technically both self and this are used for the same thing. They are used to access the variable associated with the current instance. Only difference is, you have to include …

Dec 31, 2009 · The "self" is the conventional placeholder of the current object instance of a class. Its used when you want to refer to the object's property or field or method inside a class as if you're …

Returning self from a method simply means that your method returns a reference to the instance object on which it was called. This can sometimes be seen in use with object oriented APIs that are …

6 self refers to the current instance of Bank. When you create a new Bank, and call create_atm on it, self will be implicitly passed by python, and will refer to the bank you created.