However, it really uses C++, and if you want to provide “things” to the tool users, you need to create objects. For example, when you put Serial in a program, you use an object someone else wrote.

Dataclasses, introduced in Python 3.7 (and backported to Python 3.6), provide a handy, less verbose way to create classes. Many of the common things you do in a class, like instantiating ...