Python objects are “reference counted.” This means that whenever an object is assigned a new name (“a = 4” creates an object “4” and the name “a” is a pointer to the object), or ...

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.

This article is weird. “Python has objects” isn’t even catching it properly. As in python, EVERYTHING is an object. Strings, an object. Modules, objects.