Python classes can make your code more complicated than necessary. So when should you use classes, and when should you use standard functions instead?

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.

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I ...

This post explains how to use classes in Python. Including: how to use static and private methods, constructors, and more!

Python classes for high school students If you’re a high school student who wants to learn Python, you’re likely to have different needs than an adult trying to learn this language.

Python 3.7's dataclasses reduce repetition in your class definitions. Newcomers to Python often are surprised by how little code is required to accomplish quite a bit. Between powerful built-in data ...

Python will determine, entirely at runtime, what method to invoke, based on the name of the message and the class inheritance of obj. This behavior works as expected and is easy to remember.

Hey all, I've been a C/C# dev for a while and am tackling a fun side project at work for a Slack bot written in Python, which i have basically no experience in. It's been fun so far. I have a ...

Java would become easier for students to learn under a proposal to introduce flexible main methods and anonymous main classes to the language. This is a preview language feature, disabled by ...

Benefits of unnamed classes and instance main methods Instance main methods and unnamed classes, coming in Java 21, will forever change how developers learn Java and bootstrap applications. Why? They ...