The Quick Python Book

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, we discuss Python classes, which can be used in a manner analogous to C structures but which can also be used in a full object-oriented manner. For the benefit of readers who aren’t object-oriented programmers, we’ll discuss the use of classes as structures in the first two subsections.

The remainder of the chapter discusses OOP in Python. This is only a description of the constructs available in Python; it’s not an exposition on object-oriented ...