This post explains how to use classes in Python. Including: how to use static and private methods, constructors, and more!

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.

Python classes can make your code more complicated than necessary. So when should you use classes, and when should you use standard functions instead?

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.

Classes and objects in Java must be initialized before they are used. You’ve previously learned that class fields are initialized to default values when classes are loaded, and that objects are ...

Conclusion Python's classes always have suffered from some repetition, and dataclasses aim to fix that problem. But, dataclasses go beyond macros to provide a toolkit that a large number of Python ...