3. Classes and Modules
- Creating Instances
- Methods and Special Methods
- Inheritance and Polymorphism
- Modules and Multifile Applications
Python fully supports procedural and object-oriented programming, and leaves us free to use either approach, or to combine the two. So far we have done procedural programming, although we have already used some Python classes—for example, the str string class. What we have not yet done is defined our own classes. In this chapter we will learn how to create classes and methods, and how to do object-oriented programming with Python. And in all subsequent chapters, we will almost always use an object-oriented approach in the programs we write.
We assume that you are familiar with object-oriented programming—for ...
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