On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:10 AM, alex23 <wuwei23 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 17, 1:29 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve > +comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote: >> Here's a style question for you: in a metaclass, what should I call the >> instance parameter of methods, "cls" or "self"? >> Maybe portmanteu it as "clasself"? :) What is this, 1st edition D&D? Elf is a race, not a class.