[Tutor] a class knowing its self

[Ben Vinger]

Hello

I've been reading about how a class has access to its
own 'self', so I tried the following, but it is not
working as I would expect:

class Skill:
   def __init__(self):
      self.history = []      

   def setName(self, skill):
      self.name = skill

   def getName(self):
      return self.name

# Assigning data to my class:          

SkillNames = [r'python', r'apache', r'mysql']

#a.)
python = Skill()
python.setName('python')
print python.getName()

#b.)
for s in SkillNames:
  s = Skill()
  s.setName(s)
  print s.getName()

Why does a work and b not?   

b returns:
<__main__.Skill instance at 0x401e260c>
<__main__.Skill instance at 0x401e230c>
<__main__.Skill instance at 0x401e23ec>

why does b not return the names of the 3 instances of
Skill?

Thanks
Ben


		
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