What is `self` in Python?

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[Cimex]

Finally a clear explanation. I've spent the last 2 hours trying to figure this thing out with youtube video but all it took was your 4 min explanation.

[KjV]

"Self means 'this istance of the class'" instantly made it made sense, thanks!

[walterstraub]

This is the best explanation anywhere on the internet. Thank-you

[dbapple]

thank you !! the fact that self and instance has the same address, was very useful to me, trying to understand since yesterday.))) and Self == This instance is useful too

[__mas]

I was just going through some notes from a while back and saw I had saved the link to this video - without doubt, a mini masterpiece on explaining the concept and use of "self"!

[Henvag]

Thank you for explaining. I was fooling around with classes and stumbled upon "self" argument. I got the general idea of it when running the code, but you managed to put it into words for me.

[nayanjha]

Quite intuitive explanation bro ...makes the life easy for ill explained concepts like "self" !!

[DEBLAND]

best explain of self parameter i have ever seen thank you

[idanishsharma]

THIS INSTANCE OF THE CLASS. Well Fucking Done

[Dashew]

This is an amazing explanation. Thank you!!

[PythonArms]

I have watched about a dozen videos on this topic and this one takes the cake. Well done! Earned a sub from me!

[Ridwan-vbnm]

The best explanationI heard so far, Thank you.

[thestrappingentrepreneur]

holy shit you deserve a gold fucking medal for this explanation

[beinghappy]

self is this instance of the class
It is the first argument in the method of a class but we don't need to pass it as a parameter while invoking the methods of that class

[sanankazimov]

So far the best explanation!!! You are great!

[mR_rb]

If only I had founds this earlier...Thanks Mahn💪🏾👊🏿

[yunustan]

Excellent explanation. Don't understand why teachers don't bring this up.

[zahraBatenin]

self is just this instance of the class. well said

[andrews]

Excellent! Thanks for the explanation.

[jag]

if self is "this instance of the class", in your 'introduce' method, is self.name an instance of the introduce or __init__ since name is a variable of __init__.