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From: Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: multiple values for keyword argument
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:03:28 -0500
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In article <8qijsgFgu1U1@mid.dfncis.de>,
 Frank Dierkes <Frank.Dierkes@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Naming the first parameter self is only a convention. It could be any 
> other name, too.

But it shouldn't.  The use of "self" is so universal that using anything 
else will just make your code more difficult for other people to 
understand.