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The Python Apprentice
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The Python Apprentice

by Robert Smallshire, Austin Bingham
June 2017
Beginner
352 pages
8h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Summary

  • All types in Python have a class.

  • Classes define the structure and behavior of an object.

  • The class of an object is determined when the object is created and is almost always fixed for the lifetime of the object.

  • Classes are the key support for Object-Oriented Programming in Python.

  • Classes are defined using the class keyword followed by the class name, which is in CamelCase.

  • Instances of a class are created by calling the class as if it were a function.

  • Instance methods are functions defined inside the class which should accept an object instance called self as the first parameter.

  • Methods are called using the instance.method() syntax which is syntactic sugar for passing the instance as the formal self argument to ...

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