How to avoid using 'self' so much

I am writing a program to simulate a small physical system and have become more and more annoyed as I write things like this: `K = 0.5 * self.m * self.v**2` In the case above, the equation is short and pretty understandable, but I have situations in which there is so much `self` that the whole thing ends up looking like a mess. I am aware that python always requires `self` to refer to class members, but is there a way to to make the code not look like a mosaic of `self`'s? EDIT: I usually do things such as: `var = self.var` and keep on using `var` instead of `self.var`. Later I do: `self.var = var` but this seems really stupid. What would be the pythonic way to solve this problem?