> python's requirement of object methods requiring the self arg I originally hated it too, but it's grown on me. I've come to the conclusion that it's good to

> python's requirement of object methods requiring the self arg I originally hated it too, but it's grown on me. I've come to the conclusion that it's good to have that explicit signal that something is a member variable rather than a local. And I've started adding explicit "this." to member variables in all my Java programs.