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Rich Braymiller
7,119 PointsWondering if someone can properly define .self to me?
.self seems a little confusing and not sure how well it was explained..anyone out there who can help me better understand this?
2 Answers
Daren Davis
6,929 Pointsas in self.property_Variable or (Attribute), think of it this way. You have created your object and when you refer to it within your definition. instead of putting "the name of the object you created in the future". whatever attribute or property_variable, you just use "self".whatever as placeholder.
Jorge Solana
6,064 PointsIf I didn't get it wrong:
- Classes and Structs may have different functions/methods coded inside.
- Each of these can have its own variables that can be named the same as the Class Attributes/Properties.
- In case you need to refer to any of the Class properties you can use the self so code can understand when you are referring to the class prop and when to the func/method variable