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.

When you create database tables with Python objects, you use a class to declare the behavior of each field first, then its type. For instance, a mandatory, distinct name field would be name ...

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 ...