Many have proposed to make self a keyword in Python, like this in C++ and Java. This would eliminate the redundant use of explicit self from the formal parameter list in methods.

For a language-agnostic consideration of the design decision, see What is the advantage of having this/self pointer mandatory explicit?. To close debugging questions where OP omitted a …

Jul 8, 2017 · In this case, there are some benefits to allowing this: 1) Methods are just functions that happen defined in a class, and need to be callable either as bound methods with implicit …

The W3C's WebAppSec Working Group is starting to look at the issue. See, for example, Proposal: Marking HTTP As Non-Secure. How to create a self-signed certificate with …

Jul 2, 2020 · To allow a self-signed certificate to be used by Microsoft-Edge it is necessary to use the "certmgr.msc" tool from the command line to import the certificate as a Trusted Certificate …

Why is cls sometimes used instead of self as an argument in Python classes? For example: class Person: def __init__(self, firstname, lastname): self.firstname = firstname self.

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Jun 25, 2017 · You don't have to name it self, that's just a convention (but one you should stick to, as anything else would be confusing), but you always have to include that initial parameter that …

In my case, I was using self-signed certificate generated by mkcert. While curl works fine with such self-signed certificates, the Python requests module does not.

So, in the first method self specifies that Python should use the variable (attribute), that "belongs" to the class object we created, not a global one (outside the class).