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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, catch/except 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
selfas 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 even choose the name this.