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.

Today, C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic.NET and Python are popular object-oriented languages. The following compares basic OOP terms with traditional programming. See object-oriented DBMS .

But then I show them that functions and classes are both objects, and they realize that Python's notion of "everything" is a bit more expansive than theirs. (And yes, Python's definition of ...