当对象实例化时，对象本身被传递到self参数中。

因此，对象的数据被绑定到对象上。下面是一个示例，说明您可能希望如何可视化每个对象的数据。注意“self”是如何被对象名称替换的。我并不是说下面这个示例图是完全准确的，但希望它能在可视化self的使用方面起到一定的作用。

对象被传递到self参数中，这样对象就可以保存自己的数据。

Although this may not be wholly accurate, think of the process of instantiating an object like this: When an object is made it uses the class as a template for its own data and methods. Without passing it's own name into the self parameter, the attributes and methods in the class would remain as a general template and would not be referenced to (belong to) the object. So by passing the object's name into the self parameter it means that if 100 objects are instantiated from the one class, they can all keep track of their own data and methods.

如下图所示:

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

它是对类实例对象的显式引用。

与Java或c++不同，Python不是为面向对象编程而构建的语言。

在Python中调用静态方法时，只需编写一个内部带有常规参数的方法。

class Animal():
    def staticMethod():
        print "This is a static method"

然而，一个对象方法，它需要你创建一个变量，在这里是Animal，它需要self参数

class Animal():
    def objectMethod(self):
        print "This is an object method which needs an instance of a class"

self方法还用于引用类中的变量字段。

class Animal():
    #animalName made in constructor
    def Animal(self):
        self.animalName = "";


    def getAnimalName(self):
        return self.animalName

在本例中，self引用了整个类的animalName变量。记住:如果你在一个方法中有一个变量，self将不起作用。该变量仅在该方法运行时存在。为了定义字段(整个类的变量)，您必须在类方法之外定义它们。

如果你一个字都听不懂我在说什么，那么谷歌“面向对象编程”。一旦你明白了这一点，你甚至不需要问那个问题:)。

它的使用类似于Java中this关键字的使用，即给出对当前对象的引用。

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..