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On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 21:14:44 -0500, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> declaimed the
following:

>In article <mailman.7684.1393898999.18130.python-list@python.org>,
> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 22:16:31 -0800 (PST), Westley Martínez
>> <anikom15@gmail.com> declaimed the following:
>> 
>> >I understand that in an object method the first argument in the object 
>> >itself, called self.  However, it doesn't have to be called self, and can be 
>> >called anything.  So my question is why is it called self and not this like 
>> >from C++ and Java.  It's kind of a silly question, but one that I'm curious 
>> >about nevertheless.
>> >
>> 
>> 	It didn't want to be egotistical (as I recall, M$ VB uses "me")
>
>And Freud uses "id", but that was taken already in Python :-)

	Not to mention that the "id" is not the "ego"...
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