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Re:Why Is the Migration to Python 3 Taking So Long? by Doxin on Friday November 15, 2019 @10:39AM (#21545687)
The thing is that that doesn't really match the calling syntax, it matches the syntactic sugar for the calling syntax. Whenever you do

    thing_instance.foo(bar, baz)
you're secretly calling

    Thing.foo(thing_instance, bar, baz)
Which succinctly explains where the self argument comes from.
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