我想说，至少对于Python, self参数可以被认为是一个占位符。 看看这个:

class Person:
  def __init__(self, name, age):
    self.name = name
    self.age = age

p1 = Person("John", 36)

print(p1.name)
print(p1.age)

Self在这里，还有很多其他的被用作存储name值的方法。然而，在此之后，我们使用p1将其分配给我们正在使用的类。然后当我们打印它时，我们使用相同的p1关键字。

希望这对Python有所帮助!

它是对类实例对象的显式引用。

The reason you need to use self. is because Python does not use special syntax to refer to instance attributes. Python decided to do methods in a way that makes the instance to which the method belongs be passed automatically, but not received automatically: the first parameter of methods is the instance the method is called on. That makes methods entirely the same as functions, and leaves the actual name to use up to you (although self is the convention, and people will generally frown at you when you use something else.) self is not special to the code, it's just another object.

Python could have done something else to distinguish normal names from attributes -- special syntax like Ruby has, or requiring declarations like C++ and Java do, or perhaps something yet more different -- but it didn't. Python's all for making things explicit, making it obvious what's what, and although it doesn't do it entirely everywhere, it does do it for instance attributes. That's why assigning to an instance attribute needs to know what instance to assign to, and that's why it needs self..

首先，self是一个传统的名字，你可以用其他任何东西(连贯)来代替它。

它引用对象本身，因此当您使用它时，您声明.name和.age是您将要创建的Student对象(注意，不是Student类)的属性。

class Student:
    #called each time you create a new Student instance
    def __init__(self,name,age): #special method to initialize
        self.name=name
        self.age=age

    def __str__(self): #special method called for example when you use print
        return "Student %s is %s years old" %(self.name,self.age)

    def call(self, msg): #silly example for custom method
        return ("Hey, %s! "+msg) %self.name

#initializing two instances of the student class
bob=Student("Bob",20)
alice=Student("Alice",19)

#using them
print bob.name
print bob.age
print alice #this one only works if you define the __str__ method
print alice.call("Come here!") #notice you don't put a value for self

#you can modify attributes, like when alice ages
alice.age=20
print alice

代码在这里

Self是对对象本身的引用，因此，它们是相同的。 Python方法不是在对象本身的上下文中调用的。 self在Python中可以用来处理自定义对象模型或其他东西。

因为按照python的设计，其他的选择几乎行不通。Python被设计为允许在隐式this (a-la Java/ c++)或显式@ (a-la ruby)都不能工作的上下文中定义方法或函数。让我们看一个带有python约定的显式方法的例子:

def fubar(x):
    self.x = x

class C:
    frob = fubar

现在fubar函数不能工作了，因为它假定self是一个全局变量(在frob中也是如此)。另一种方法是使用替换的全局作用域(其中self是对象)执行方法。

隐式方法是

def fubar(x)
    myX = x

class C:
    frob = fubar

这意味着myX将被解释为fubar(以及frob)中的局部变量。这里的替代方案是使用替换的局部作用域执行方法，该作用域在调用之间保留，但这将消除方法局部变量的可能性。

然而，目前的情况很好:

 def fubar(self, x)
     self.x = x

 class C:
     frob = fubar

在这里，当作为方法调用时，frob将通过self参数接收它所调用的对象，fubar仍然可以以对象作为参数调用并且工作相同(我认为它与C.frob相同)。