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Class and object namespaces

After the class object has been created (which usually happens when the module is first imported), it basically represents a namespace. We can call that class to create its instances. Each instance inherits the class attributes and methods and is given its own namespace. We already know that, to walk a namespace, all we need to do is to use the dot (.) operator.

Let's look at another example:

# oop/class.namespaces.pyclass Person:    species = 'Human'print(Person.species)  # HumanPerson.alive = True  # Added dynamically!print(Person.alive)  # Trueman = Person()print(man.species)  # Human (inherited)print(man.alive)  # True (inherited)Person.alive = Falseprint(man.alive)  # False (inherited)man.name = 'Darth'man.surname ...