What exactly does "self" do in classes and methods
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  <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
  <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2709821/python-self-explained">python &#39;self&#39; explained</a>  </p>
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<p>Ok So programming in python, and just started using classes. Now is it that "self" keeps the information going instead of being passed or taken by the garbage collector?</p>

<p>I searched around and came to some... interesting things, but I'm not sure if I'm understanding it correctly though.</p>
