Why do you need explicitly have the “self” argument in a Python method?

Question

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
        se         


        

Answer 1

Python doesn't force you on using "self". You can give it whatever name you want. You just have to remember that the first argument in a method definition header is a reference to the object.