Chapter 6
Doing Python with Class
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding classes and objects
Learning how to create a class
Initializing an object in a class
Populating an object’s attributes
Discovering how to give a class methods
Checking out class inheritance
In the preceding 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're overselling things a little there). But classes have become a defining characteristic of modern object-oriented programming languages such as Python.
We’re aware we threw a whole lot of techno jargon your way in previous chapters. Don’t worry. For the rest of this chapter, we start off assuming that — like 99.9 percent of people ...
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