I'm working on another small game in Python. I know the language has big limitations etc. But It teaches me simple programming, and I enjoy it. So I'm trying to make a bunch of "Items", such as weapons etc for the game. Now I could make a list, and have a value for what  type of item, "damage", "value" etc. But I've heard that using classes is a better method for doing it. I've looked up classes several times, but I can't seem to wrap my head around it?

I see things like self__init__ or however it looks. I don't understand why you need this, and in general how classes work. Most likely, I'm just not good enough to understand how it works, so does anyone here know a simple way to explain how it works + how to use it?

Any response is appreciated, as always. Thanks.

Source: https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/classes.html
Classes are like data structures which make it easier to store informations.
An example class in python taken from the page:

class MyClass:
    """A simple example class"""
    i = 12345
    def f(self):
        return 'hello world'

So, for example, if you want to create a class for storing weapon info, you could do this:

class Weapon:
    damage = 20
    ammo = 80
    clip = 8
    name = "Example Weapon"
    icon = "pic/example.png"

How you assign it to a var.

x = Weapon()

Bear in mind, that everytime you assign the class to a var, the values we specified are going to be assigned to the attribute references.
If you were to "define" the weapon attributes directly via that function, the class needs a __init__ function like the one below:

def __init__(self,name,damage,clip,ammo,icon):
    self.name = name
    self.damage = damage
    self.clip = clip
    self.ammo = ammo
    self.icon = icon

Example usage:

x = Weapon("Colt 1911", 20, 8, 80, "pic/Colt1911.png")

That way, we've assigned a class to our variable and assigned our values to it.
Example of accessing the values:

print x.name

the following will print

Colt 1911

Similar thing is for other attributes.
Hope this helped.

Source: https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/classes.html
Classes are like data structures which make it easier to store informations.
An example class in python taken from the page:

I had looked up that tutorial many times before, never got my head around understanding it properly. Appreciate the response, I think I understand what they're used for now. Essentially, doing a __init__ function makes each var in the class turn into a dictionary, where I can access the information stored, like a chest holding tons of vars.

Source for Dictionary:

https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/datastructures.html#dictionaries