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Python All-in-One For Dummies

by John Shovic, Alan Simpson
May 2019
Beginner
704 pages
16h 29m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 6

Doing Python with Class

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Mastering classes and objects

Bullet Creating a class

Bullet Initializing an object in a class

Bullet Populating an object’s attributes

Bullet Giving a class methods

Bullet Understanding class inheritance

In the previous chapter, we talk about functions, which allow you to compartmentalize chunks of code that do specific tasks. In this chapter, you learn about classes, which allow you to compartmentalize code and data. You discover all the wonder, majesty, and beauty of classes and objects (okay, maybe we oversold things a little there). But classes have become a defining characteristic of modern object-oriented programming languages like Python.

We’re aware we threw a whole lot of techno jargon your way in the previous chapters. Don’t worry. For the rest of this chapter we start off assuming that — like 99.9 percent of people in this world — you don’t know a class ...

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