Python’s implementation of object orientation does have a few quirks. For example, if you create a class variable, it can be read from a subclass without specifying scope like you’d expect.

Python classes: the very basics Classes are objects that allow you to group data structures and procedures in one place. For example, imagine you’re writing a piece of code to organize the ...

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.

In Python the automatic garbage collection works very well, but it is possible to defeat it with objects that create a reference to each other creating a “circular dependency” – see the ...

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When I tell participants in my Python classes that everything in Python is an object, they nod their heads, clearly thinking, "I've heard this before about other languages." But then I show them that ...