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Possible Duplicate: Python: How to avoid explicit 'self'? In python class if I need to reference the class member variable, I need to have a self. before it. This is anonying, can I not ...

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I am writing a program to simulate a small physical system and have become more and more annoyed as I write things like this: K = 0.5 * self.m * self.v**2 In the case above, the equation is short ...

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Relatively new Python programmer here. So I am trying to create a variable that is accessible and changeable by any method within a class that is initialized within the constructor. So far, I cannot ...

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This a simply code that I trying to access to a method in a class from another method in the same class but it is given me that error any help? class menu: def __init__(self,a,b): self.a=...

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I got a little beginner question about Classes and the self. My Function checkAbonnement looks like that right now: def checkAbonnement(self): # Create Labels and Buttons self.text = ...

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class learn: def __init__(self,radius=1): self.radius = radius def reset_area(self,new_radius): self.radius= new_radius self.area = new_radius*new_radius*3.14 ...

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I have a python object with several attributes and methods. I want to iterate over object attributes. class my_python_obj(object): attr1='a' attr2='b' attr3='c' def method1(self, ...

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I have a python class that looks like this: class Process: def __init__(self, PID, PPID, cmd, FDs, reachable, user): followed by: self.PID=PID self.PPID=PPID self.cmd=cmd ...

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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 ...

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How do these 2 classes differ? class A(): x = 3 class B(): def __init__(self): self.x = 3 Is there any significant difference?

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locals is a built in function that returns a dictionary of local values. The documentation says: Warning The contents of this dictionary should not be modified; changes may not affect the ...

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What is the advantage of having this/self/me pointer mandatory explicit? According to OOP theory a method is supposed to operate mainly (only?) on member variables and method's arguments. Following ...

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I'm trying to rewrite some code using classes. At some point what I want is assign a member function a particular definition using a parameter value for each instance of an object. Coming from other ...

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Possible Duplicate: Python 'self' keyword Forgive me if this is an incredibly noobish question, but I never did understand self in Python. What does it do? And when I see things like def ...

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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 ...