what is self?

[paul h]

hi there,
i've been programming cgi with python for a couple of months now, and
i am now moving into some gui programming, using pygtk2.
looking into the code, i see a lot of references to "self" ie
self.window = ...
however, i have no idea what self is?
can anyone enlighten me...
thanks very much...

 

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

hi there,
i've been programming cgi with python for a couple of months now, and
i am now moving into some gui programming, using pygtk2.
looking into the code, i see a lot of references to "self" ie
self.window = ...
however, i have no idea what self is?
can anyone enlighten me...
thanks very much...

self is the current object (read : class instance). I think you should
read the part about oop support in the python manual.

Bruno

 

[Ben Finney]

however, i have no idea what self is?

You haven't read through the tutorial then.

Please do so now, it will fill in many missing pieces of knowledge you
currently have about Python:

<http://python.org/doc/current/tut/>