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6. Other Basic Concepts

Valentina Porcu1 
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In this chapter, we learn about some important programming concepts (such as modules and methods), list comprehension and class creation, regular expressions, and management of errors and exceptions.

Object-oriented Programming

As mentioned, Python is an object-oriented programming language, so let’s look at some basic concepts of object-oriented programming. Some important concepts are

  • Objects

  • Classes

  • Inheritance

More on Objects

Objects are all the data structures we have created, from smaller ones containing only a single number to larger ones containing large datasets. ...

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