Begin to Code with Python

9 Use classes to store data

What you will learn

We know that a computer program is something that takes data in, does something with it, and then produces output. Programming is the creation of instructions that tell the computer what to do with incoming data. Data can be stored in single values or in collections of data. In this chapter, we’ll examine features of the Python programming language that let programmers design data storage that maps to the needs of a specific program. We’ll learn how to create classes that can be used to treat complex collections of data as single objects. We’ll learn how to use objects to make programs easier to ...