在这段代码中:

class A(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.x = 'Hello'

    def method_a(self, foo):
        print self.x + ' ' + foo

．.． self变量表示对象本身的实例。大多数面向对象语言将此作为一个隐藏参数传递给对象上定义的方法;Python则不然。你必须显式地声明它。当你创建一个A类的实例并调用它的方法时，它将被自动传递，就像在…

a = A()               # We do not pass any argument to the __init__ method
a.method_a('Sailor!') # We only pass a single argument

__init__方法大致代表Python中的构造函数。当你调用A()时，Python为你创建一个对象，并将其作为第一个参数传递给__init__方法。任何额外的参数(例如，A(24， 'Hello'))也会作为参数传递——在这种情况下会引发异常，因为构造函数并不期望它们。

基本上，当在同一个类中的多个函数中使用一个变量时，需要使用'self'关键字。至于init，它用于设置默认值，以防该类中没有其他函数被调用。

只是这个问题的一个演示。

class MyClass:

    def __init__(self):
        print('__init__ is the constructor for a class')

    def __del__(self):
        print('__del__ is the destructor for a class')

    def __enter__(self):
        print('__enter__ is for context manager')
        return self

    def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_value, traceback):
        print('__exit__ is for context manager')

    def greeting(self):
        print('hello python')


if __name__ == '__main__':
    with MyClass() as mycls:
        mycls.greeting()

$ python3 class.objects_instantiation.py
__init__ is the constructor for a class
__enter__ is for context manager
hello python
__exit__ is for context manager
__del__ is the destructor for a class

在这里，这个家伙写得很好，很简单:https://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2014/06/18/improve-your-python-python-classes-and-object-oriented-programming/

阅读上面的链接作为参考:

self? So what's with that self parameter to all of the Customer methods? What is it? Why, it's the instance, of course! Put another way, a method like withdraw defines the instructions for withdrawing money from some abstract customer's account. Calling jeff.withdraw(100.0) puts those instructions to use on the jeff instance. So when we say def withdraw(self, amount):, we're saying, "here's how you withdraw money from a Customer object (which we'll call self) and a dollar figure (which we'll call amount). self is the instance of the Customer that withdraw is being called on. That's not me making analogies, either. jeff.withdraw(100.0) is just shorthand for Customer.withdraw(jeff, 100.0), which is perfectly valid (if not often seen) code. init self may make sense for other methods, but what about init? When we call init, we're in the process of creating an object, so how can there already be a self? Python allows us to extend the self pattern to when objects are constructed as well, even though it doesn't exactly fit. Just imagine that jeff = Customer('Jeff Knupp', 1000.0) is the same as calling jeff = Customer(jeff, 'Jeff Knupp', 1000.0); the jeff that's passed in is also made the result. This is why when we call init, we initialize objects by saying things like self.name = name. Remember, since self is the instance, this is equivalent to saying jeff.name = name, which is the same as jeff.name = 'Jeff Knupp. Similarly, self.balance = balance is the same as jeff.balance = 1000.0. After these two lines, we consider the Customer object "initialized" and ready for use. Be careful what you __init__ After init has finished, the caller can rightly assume that the object is ready to use. That is, after jeff = Customer('Jeff Knupp', 1000.0), we can start making deposit and withdraw calls on jeff; jeff is a fully-initialized object.

__init__确实像一个构造函数。如果您希望任何类函数表现为非静态方法，则需要将“self”作为第一个参数传递给它们。self是类的实例变量。

self是类实例的引用

class foo:
    def bar(self):
            print "hi"

现在我们可以创建一个foo实例并调用它的方法，self参数在本例中由Python添加:

f = foo()
f.bar()

但是如果方法调用不在类实例的上下文中，它也可以被传入，下面的代码做同样的事情

f = foo()
foo.bar(f)

有趣的是，变量名“self”只是一种约定。下面的定义将工作完全相同..说了这么多，这是一种非常强烈的惯例，应该一直遵循，但它确实说明了语言的灵活性

class foo:
    def bar(s):
            print "hi"