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

The 'self' parameter keeps the current calling object.

class class_name:
    class_variable
    def method_name(self,arg):
        self.var=arg 
obj=class_name()
obj.method_name()

here, the self argument holds the object obj. Hence, the statement self.var denotes obj.var