© J. Burton Browning and Marty Alchin 2019
J. Burton Browning and Marty AlchinPro Python 3https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4385-5_6

6. Object Management

J. Burton Browning1  and Marty Alchin2
(1)
Oak Island, NC, USA
(2)
Agoura Hills, CA, USA
 

Creating an instance of a class is only the beginning; once you have an object, there are a number of things you can do with it. This is obvious, of course, because objects have methods and attributes that are intended to control their behavior, but those are defined by each class. Objects, as a whole, have an additional set of features that allow you to manage them in a number of different ways.

In order to understand these features, it’s first necessary to understand what actually constitutes an object. At a ...

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