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Python object model in a nutshell (with deliberate errors for simplicity):
- A class is a dict
- The dict contains methods (not in python syntax):
 cls = { 'a': function(self, blah) {...}, 'b': function(self, blorp) {...} }
- An object is also a dict that contains an __class__ member that points to the class:
 obj = { '__class__': cls }
- When you fetch a method from obj:
 obj.a
 it looks on __class__ for 'a', and finding it wraps it in a functor that adds the self parameter:
 function(blah) { obj['__class__']['a'](obj, blah) }
- When you apply to that function by calling it:
 obj.a(1)
 you are actually calling the above functor that prefixes the self parameter in.

This is why in python a class method is defined like this:
def blah(self, blah):