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.

and that class methods apply to the class rather than an object. Are these the only reasons? Could you give an example of a case where you would use a class method over an instance method?

For units of code to work with other code units' methods and properties, they must reference those components. Modern languages, including Java and Python, implement this requirement in the form of an ...