[Damilola Oladele] shows the ins and outs of object-oriented Python in a recent post. Like other languages, Python allows you to organize functions and data into classes and then create instances ...

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 ...

It’s also possible to create or modify dictionaries programmatically, as you’ll see later on. Any mutable Python object doesn’t have a consistent hash value over its lifetime, and so can’t ...

You can create both command-line and cross-platform ... In Python, everything in the language is an object, including Python modules and libraries themselves. This lets Python work as a highly ...