self

In Python, when you define a method within a class, the first parameter is conventionally named self. This parameter implicitly refers to the instance of the class that the method is being called on. Abstract ideas to relate - itself or this

self is how methods can access and modify the attributes and other methods of the object they belong to.

Methods with/without self

Any normal method must take self as the first parameter. Exceptions are stratic method and class method.

For example:

class MyClass:
    def my_method():  # Missing 'self' parameter
        print("This is a method")
# Attempt to create an instance and call the method
obj = MyClass()
obj.my_method()

This code will produce TypeError: my_method() takes 0 positional arguments but 1 was given