[Tutor] Help with understanding classes

[Robert Sjöblom]

I'm trying to wrap my head around classes and their attributes, but am having a hard time doing so. The websites and books that I have consulted haven't been much help; most of them assume prior programming/oop experience, something I lack. 

From what I understand it's a "blueprint", so each time you instantiate it you run whatever's in the __self__ part is assigned to the instance. What I'm wondering is how to access and change attributes in the instance (whatever it might be; a list, a specific value, a string...).

I just can't seem to grasp the concept or syntax very well, and none of the sources I've found go to great lengths explaining them to someone as thick-headed as me. So if anyone could take the time to explain, or point me to sources to read, I'd be grateful

Thanks in advance, and best regards,
Robert S. 
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