[NYLXS - HANGOUT] Re: [nylug-talk] PIG in new york?

[Dan Crosta]

phantom21 at mindspring.com wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 June 2006 22:15, Peter C. Norton wrote:
>> Depending on the general level of the group, I can lead or join in.
>>
>> -Peter
> 
> My biggest problem is groking classes.  I'm having a problem with the 
> initialization and the self parameter.  The examples in almost all the books 
> aren't adequate.

Maybe a good place to start in the study group would be with an 
introduction to Pythonism---why the explicit 'self' parameter, for 
instance. I don't claim to know a great deal about all the whys, but I'm 
sure someone's documented a lot of this stuff somewhere and we could 
make it make sense to all of us.

dsc