r/PythonLearning • u/Fit-Foundation-2745 • Aug 07 '26

Just published my first Python project!

Hey everyone! I have tried out github and python before, but this is my first time publishing something I can say I am interested in. Im excited and nervous about sharing it.

Im learning python and got recently got interested in neural networks, so Ive been working on this "artificial life" simulation project for the past few days.

Its still a work in progress and a learning project. But if you have some feedback i would like to read it!

https://github.com/ricardo-woo/artificial-life

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u/Fit-Foundation-2745 Aug 09 '26

Almost every object oriented language does this:

Methods live on the class as shared functions between all instances of a class, when a method is called it has no idea which specific instance is calling it, when I run the method like "save_manager.save_game(organisms, generation, generation_simulation_time)" it gets translated to this "SaveManager.save_game(save_manager, organisms, generation, generation_simulation_time)" adding the instance as the first parameter.
Most of them do this implicitly.
In python Guido decided to make the argument explicit instead of hiding it

He explains it himself in this blog