Well, basically because it was a design choice when the creators of Python decided to create the language, they basically said, we're always going to have an explicit pointer to the instance.

好，基本上来说这是因为,这是当Python的创造者,决定创造这门语言的时候,的一个设计决定，他们主要的说了说，我们要有一个明确的,指向实例的指针。

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