Oct 18, 2016 · Are you supposed to use self when referencing a member function in Python (within the same module)? More generally, I was wondering when it is required to use self, not …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

Dec 31, 2009 · The "self" is the conventional placeholder of the current object instance of a class. Its used when you want to refer to the object's property or field or method inside a class as if …

Aug 2, 2019 · The reason was an SSL certificate problem: 'self-signed certificate in certificate chain.'" Protected question. To answer this question, you need to have at least 10 reputation …

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).