Blender is 3d object. Python is object oriented programming language. I am studying Python but I can’t figure what they mean by object. More on blenderartists.org

An object is a data structure that can have properties and methods. A property is a piece of data like a string, integer, or another object. Think of it as a variable within the variable. A method is a function built into the object which it can be called to carry out. Like any other function it takes arguments but it also has access to any of the object's properties. In Python an object is defined by a class, which says what properties objects of that type will have and what methods they can execute. This is how most object oriented languages do it, with the exception of Javascript, which uses an entirely different framework. From a class one can create multiple instances of an object. Each instance will have the same properties, but set to different values. Each instance will be able to do the same methods. For example imagine a Student object. It would have a name, age, grade, and so on. It could have the moveUp() method, which would increase the Student's grade. A file object is just a kind of object Python can create that allows it to do things to a file, like read from it or write to it. A number is technically an object in Python. This is not the case in all object oriented languages. But it's better thought of as a "primitive," meaning the stuff that other objects can be made of. A number only has one piece of data, the number itself, and doesn't have any built in methods (I think). This barely scratches the surface of object oriented programming. Google "python oop" and read various resources and you'll learn a lot more. More on reddit.com

I am surprised that my question was not asked (worded like the above) before. I am hoping that someone could break down this basic term "object" in the context of a OOP language like Pyth... More on stackoverflow.com

I don't get what they are in general They're like code containers which can have variables and/or functions in them. Think of them as containers of code with variables/funtions you can easily re-use multiple times. I dont get what they're used for. (I'm not the best at ELI5-ing stuff, but I'll try): Let's say you're making a game where you have thousand of enemy objects, each of them has its own variables like hp, ammo, and functions to shoot at player shoot() instead of making a dictionary or something to hold our data we can create an Enemy class/object which we will use. >>> class Enemy(object): ... def __init__(self): ... self.ammo=100 ... self.hp=100 ... def shoot(self): ... self.ammo-=1 ... return "Shooting! {} bullets left".format(self.ammo) In the above code we defined function named Enemy and we made its initial variables ammo and hp to be both equal to 100. The shoot() function will deduct one from ammo variable and print out the current number of ammo. Now let's use that class. >>> first_enemy=Enemy() This means the variable first_enemy is now equal to the Enemy object. And the variables inside __init__ have been initialized/set. >>> first_enemy <__main__.Enemy object at 0x86698ec> To access variables we can do something like this: >>> first_enemy.hp 100 >>> first_enemy.ammo 100 To access functions we just call them, similar to getting variables. >>> first_enemy.shoot() 'Shooting! 99 bullets left' >>> first_enemy.shoot() 'Shooting! 98 bullets left' Now, let's say you want to add another enemy with same initial values as first_enemy. You just assign it to a new variable and it'll be same as first_enemy initially was, but they'll be separated. What you do with one instance of class doesn't affect another. >>> second_enemy=Enemy() >>> second_enemy.ammo 100 >>> first_enemy.ammo 98 You of course don't need to have separate variables for every instance of class, you can for example just put a bunch of them in a list and access them: >>> all_enemies=[Enemy() for _ in range(1000)] >>> len(all_enemies) 1000 >>> all_enemies[4].hp 100 >>> all_enemies[4].hp-=50 >>> all_enemies[4].hp 50 >>> all_enemies[5].hp 100 That's the first example that came to my mind, I'm not sure if it'll help since similar examples were written in threads about classes here before but I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have. More on reddit.com