Plurrrr

The WHOIS protocol is one of the older internet protocols around. It's infuriatingly simple, by and large considered obsolete, and the data provided by it unpredictable, unreliable, incomplete, and, of course, still one of the corner stones of internet operations. In other words, it's the kind of thing I like to waste my time on trying to understand.

A line of code containing 6+ pieces of information should be simplified.

Every Python developer is familiar with the self argument, which is present in every* method declaration of every class. We all know how to use it, but do you really know what it is, why it's there and how it works under the hood?