Classes and objects

A class can be thought of as a template or a blueprint that contains the definition of the method and the variables that are to be used with objects of that class. An object is nothing but an instance of the class, which contains actual values rather than variables. A class can also be defined as a collection of objects.

To put this in simple terms, a class is a collection of variables and methods. The methods actually define the behavior or the operations that the class performs and the variables are the entities upon which the operations are performed. In Python, a class is declared with the class keyword, followed by the class name. The following example shows how to declare a basic employee class, along with some methods ...

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