Everything in Python is an object, or so the saying goes. If you want to create your own custom objects, with their own properties and methods, you use Python’s class object to make that happen.

Introducing classes in Python. For those that are unfamiliar with the concept of classes and who want to learn more about how they work, keep reading.

However, this amazement often ends when people start to define classes in Python. True, the class definitions generally will be pretty short. But the __init__ method, which adds attributes to a new ...