Message to Self. What’s this?
Where C++ has this, Python has self.
Unlike C++’s this you’re not required to refer to the current
object as self: you could call it me, or current_object, or
even this — but you’d have to be feeling pretty perverse to adopt
such a non-idiomatic style. And also unlike C++, you do have to explicitly
name the current object, which some find tiresome.
Python does have a standard this library, though. It isn’t
documented. It isn’t even tested. To see what it does, open a command
shell and type:
python -c "import this"
Go on, try it!
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