I'm pretty much ignorant of OOP jargon and concepts. I know conceptually what an object is, and that objects have methods. I even understand that in python, classes are objects! That's cool, I just don't know what it means. It isn't clicking with me.
I'm currently trying to understand a few detailed answers that I think will illuminate my understanding of python:
In the first answer, the author uses the following code as an example:
>>> class Bank(): # let's create a bank, building ATMs
... crisis = False
... def create_atm(self) :
... while not self.crisis :
... yield "$100"
I don't immediately grok what self is pointing to. This is definitely a symptom of not understanding classes, which I will work on at some point. To clarify, in
>>> def func():
... for i in range(3):
... print i
I understand that i points to an item in the list range(3) which, since it is in a function, isn't global. But what does self "point to"?