Partially unrelated to the meme, but I find it almost malicious how some python keywords are named differently from the nearly universal counterpart of other languagues.

This/self, continue/pass, except/catch and they couldn’t find a different word for switch so they just didn’t implement it.

It’s as if the original designers purposefully wanted to be different for the sake of it.

I read that self as a keyword also has quite a history. It was already used in Smalltalk, an OOP language from the early 80’s.

Isn’t self not actually a keyword? Like you can name the first variable in a class method anything and it will behave like self.

You could use “this” instead of “self”. And if you want a lynch mob of Python programmers outside your house, make a push request with that to some commonly used package.

I think there will be a lynch mob of git users outside your house for calling PR as “push request”.