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I'm learning the Python programming language and I've came across something I don't fully understand. In a method like: def method(self, blah): def __init__(?): .... .... What does ...

When defining a method on a class in Python, it looks something like this: class MyClass(object): def __init__(self, x, y): self.x = x self.y = y But in some other languages, such ...

I am new to Python (usually work on C#), started using it over the last couple of days. Within a class, do you need to prefix any call to that classes data members and methods? So, if I am calling a ...

I'm pretty much ignorant of OOP jargon and concepts. I know conceptually what an object is, and that objects have methods. I even understand that in python, classes are objects! That's cool, I just ...

So I just started programming in python and I don't understand the whole reasoning behind 'self'. I understand that it is used almost like a global variable, so that data can be passed between ...

Suppose I have this code: class Num: def __init__(self,num): self.n = num def getn(self): return self.n def getone(): return 1 myObj = Num(3) print(myObj.getn()) # ...

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 but for ...

I'm learning Python and I have a question, more theoretical than practical, regarding access class variables from method of this class. For example we have: class ExampleClass: x = 123 def ...

I am using python to call a method in one class that is in one file from a method in another class of other file Suppose my file is abc.py that contains class data : def values_to_insert(...

Every single example I have seen of a method in a class in Python, has self as the first argument. Is this true of all methods? If so, couldn't python have been written so that this argument was ...

From what I read/understand, the 'self' parameter is similiar to 'this'. Is that true? If its optional, what would you do if self wasnt' passed into the method?

I can understand why it is needed for local variables, (self.x), but why is is nessecary as parameter in a function? Is there something else you could put there instead of self? Please explain in as ...

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I recently started learning python. And im working on a problem. class Person: age = 0 def __init__(self,initial_Age): if initial_Age<0: age=0 print("This ...

Here is a code: class Child(object): def chunks(l, n): """ Yield successive n-sized chunks from l. """ for i in xrange(0, len(l), n): yield l[i:i+n] k= range(...