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.

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 ...

Callable Types 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 ...

Aside from covering the basics—Python syntax, data, and container types, flow control, functions/modules—it also provides detail on classes and object-oriented programming, writing self ...