Chapter 15. Classes and object-oriented programming
This chapter covers
- Defining classes
- Using instance variables and @property
- Defining methods
- Defining class variables and methods
- Inheriting from other classes
- Making variables and methods private
- Inheriting from multiple classes
In this chapter, I discuss Python classes, which can be used to hold both data and code. Although most programmers are probably familiar with classes or objects in other languages, I make no particular assumptions about knowledge of a specific language or paradigm. In addition, this chapter is a description only of the constructs available in Python; it’s not an exposition on object-oriented programming (OOP) itself.
15.1. Defining classes
A class in Python is ...
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