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Re:Why Is the Migration to Python 3 Taking So Long? by smacktoward on Thursday November 14, 2019 @03:09PM (#21538903)
There's a fine line between "explicit is good because it means how things behave is obvious" and "explicit is bad because it means typing the same boilerplate over and over again."

Not saying Python fell on the wrong side of that line, just that it's an easy line to end up on the wrong side of.

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Re:Why Is the Migration to Python 3 Taking So Long? by ForHackernews on Thursday November 14, 2019 @04:00PM (#21539350)
You're free to use `_` (or whatever) instead of `self`, if you find `self` to be much repetitive boilerplate. It's only a convention.
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Re:Why Is the Migration to Python 3 Taking So Long? by gowld on Thursday November 14, 2019 @04:11PM (#21539464)
Sadly the linters went for `self`.
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