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 …

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 …

Jun 13, 2024 · You use a self join when a table references data in itself. E.g., an Employee table may have a SupervisorID column that points to the employee that is the boss of the current …

Nov 24, 2019 · Say I want to implement a method that pretty prints the struct to stdout, should I take &self? I guess self also works? As you can see, this is exactly a case for &self. If you use …

Sep 8, 2013 · To me, self like a scope definer, with self.foo () and self.bar indicating the function and the parameter defined in the class and not those defines in the other places.

Feb 11, 2014 · Moving further: Technically both self and this are used for the same thing. They are used to access the variable associated with the current instance. Only difference is, you …

Another possibility in the neighborhood of this answer is if you declare a method as an @staticmethod and then include (or retain) self as the first positional argument..

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 13, 2024 · I get this warning while testing in Spring Boot: Mockito is currently self-attaching to enable the inline-mock-maker. This will no longer work in future releases of the JDK. Please …

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 …