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 …

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 …

By making the self reference explicit, you're free to refer to any object by that self reference. Also, such a way of playing with classes at runtime is harder to do in the more static languages - not …

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 …

The keyword self does NOT refer merely to the 'current class', at least not in a way that restricts you to static members. Within the context of a non-static member, self also provides a way of …

So, in the first method self specifies that Python should use the variable (attribute), that "belongs" to the class object we created, not a global one (outside the class).

Jan 10, 2018 · quería saber el uso de estos dos y sus diferencias. He visto que tienen un uso parecido, pero lo que he visto no explican realmente cuál es mejor usar y por qué.

Что же такое self, как работает передача определенных значений переменных между функциями и как это все между собой работает? Дело в том, что я задался целью …

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 …

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