[Tutor] Method question?

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On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:
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>  This just makes x an alias for the class object. Should be
>   x = myClass()
>
>  >  x.myMethod()
>
>  then this will work.

Ah! Thank you!

I knew/guessed the alias bit from my experience with C++, but I
couldn't figure out exactly what I needed. I've seen the "self"
reference before, but I never really understood it. Let me see if I
understand correctly:

class myClass():

creates a new "data type"(?), called myClass, and

x = myClass()

creates a variable with the type of "myClass", similar to foo = dict()

and the method inside myClass defined as myMethod(self), can be called
on the data type "myClass" like this:

x.myMethod()

is that fairly accurate?
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