Need help with OOP

[sinisam]

Object oriented programming is not a new term to me, but when I tried
to do some of it... uhh... it sure looked (and felt) like Hell :) I
won't bother about things like "help me learn it" (but wouldn't mind
if someone recommends a good fresh-start tutorial), instead I'll ask
for help...

I did my share of programming several years ago... 6 or 7 to be more
specific, and as I'm pretty proud of my achievements ;)
I continued on the same path. Several weeks ago, Python showed up.
I got the 'assignment' to start learning it... almost professionally :)

OK, I did my part, but now the tests are becoming more than fair :(

Next part (even though I said I know *nothing* about OOP) is:

"Make class for the IP address. It should be initialized from the
string. Later on, we can add functions to it."

[1] What in the world I have to do here?
[1a] How to make class for the IP address? What does it mean?
[2] "Initialization from the string" means something like passing
arguments from the command line...?

Of course, I don't expect you to do the job for me, but I would sure
appreciate help. I know this is easy, but as stated before, I don't
know how to handle objects... yet :)

I informed my 'mentor' that the training on OOP subject has begun and
I started looking for good literature.

In the mean time, I'm trying to buy some time, and I was hoping that
your suggestions could help me.

Thanks for the help, and if I was unclear at some point, just shoot :)

Ciao,
Sinisa


P.S. Can somebody please explain how can I.... how to avoid all these
"I"'s from being used as often as I'm doing it? :( It really goes on
my nerves as I feel like illiterate idiot :(

P.P.S. Speaking of being illiterate, no, English is not my native 
language. Just in case someone wanders... :o)