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copied!<p>Don't skip parts of a tutorial because you don't know the problem domain - you don't need to know how to play cards to understand how card game code relates to what the program <em>does</em>. To your actual problem:</p> <pre><code>class Application(**Frame**): </code></pre> <p>This creates a class <code>Application</code> that inherits from a class <code>Frame</code>. If you don't know inheritance, the tutorial you're following should explain it, or you could try this <a href="http://www.jesshamrick.com/2011/05/18/an-introduction-to-classes-and-inheritance-in-python/" rel="nofollow">introduction to classes and inheritance</a> that I just googled up.</p> <pre><code>**def __init__(self, master): </code></pre> <p>This creates a method, with the name <code>__init__</code>. This is a special method in Python, which behaves similarly to a constructor in other languages - essentially, whenever an <code>Application</code> is created, Python will immediately call its <code>__init__</code> method before it gives the new object back to whoever made it. <code>master</code> is just an argument, same as any other to any other function.</p> <pre><code>super(Application, self).__init__(master) </code></pre> <p>This calls the constructor of the superclass, to let it initialise the new object. <code>super(Application, self)</code> figures out what the superclass <em>is</em> (in this case it is <code>Frame</code>; in more complex cases that you will come to eventually, this is harder to work out and <code>super</code>'s magic becomes important).</p> <pre><code>self.create_widgets()** </code></pre> <p>This calls the method <code>create_widgets</code>, which you define below this. The object before the <code>.</code> gets passed into the method as the first argument, <code>self</code> - so, this calls a different method on the same object that the method you're in has been called on.</p> <pre><code>app = Application(root) </code></pre> <p>This creates an <code>Application</code> - objects are created by calling the class, like how <code>list()</code> creates a list. The argument you pass in gets handed to <code>__init__</code> as its second argument (the new <code>Application</code> that Python creates behind the scenes gets passed as the first argument, <code>self</code>, as above). Python creates a new <code>Application</code>, calls its <code>__init__</code> for you, and then assigns the new object to the name 'app'.</p>

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