Python - object oriented
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The document discusses Python's object-oriented programming (OOP) features, detailing concepts such as classes, objects, attributes, and methods. It explains key terminology like instance variables, class variables, inheritance, and instantiation and describes how to create and access class instances. Additionally, it mentions built-in class attributes and provides basic examples of defining and using classes in Python.
Python - object oriented
- 1. Swipe Python - Object Oriented
- 2. Python has been an object-oriented language since it existed. Because of this, creating and using classes and objects are downright easy. This chapter helps you become an expert in using Python's object-oriented programming support. If you do not have any previous experience with object-oriented (OO) programming, you may want to consult an introductory course on it or at least a tutorial of some sort so that you have a grasp of the basic concepts. Python - Object Oriented
- 3. Class A user-defined prototype for an object that defines a set of attributes that characterize any object of the class. The attributes are data members (class variables and instance variables) and methods, accessed via dot notation. Class variable A variable that is shared by all instances of a class. Class variables are defined within a class but outside any of the class's methods. Class variables are not used as frequently as instance variables are. OOP Terminology
- 4. Data member A class variable or instance variable that holds data associated with a class and its objects. Function overloading The assignment of more than one behavior to a particular function. The operation performed varies by the types of objects or arguments involved. Instance variable A variable that is defined inside a method and belongs only to the current instance of a class. Inheritance The transfer of the characteristics of a class to other classes that are derived from it.
- 5. Instance An individual object of a certain class. An object obj that belongs to a class Circle, for example, is an instance of the class Circle. Instantiation The creation of an instance of a class. Method A special kind of function that is defined in a class definition. Object A unique instance of a data structure that's defined by its class. An object comprises both data members (class variables and instance variables) and methods. Operator overloading The assignment of more than one function to a particular operator.
- 6. Creating Classes The class statement creates a new class definition. The name of the class immediately follows the keyword class followed by a colon as follows class ClassName: 'Optional class documentation string' class_suite The class has a documentation string, which can be accessed via ClassName.__doc__. The class_suite consists of all the component statements defining class members, data attributes and functions. The variable empCount is a class variable whose value is shared among all instances of a this class. This can be accessed as Employee.empCount from inside the class or outside the class.
- 7. Creating Instance Objects To create instances of a class, you call the class using class name and pass in whatever arguments its __init__ method accepts. "This would create first object of Employee class" emp1 = Employee("Zara", 2000) "This would create second object of Employee class" emp2 = Employee("Manni", 5000)
- 8. Accessing Attributes You access the object's attributes using the dot operator with object. Class variable would be accessed using class name as follows emp1.displayEmployee() emp2.displayEmployee() print "Total Employee %d" % Employee.empCount
- 9. Built-In Class Attributes Every Python class keeps following built-in attributes and they can be accessed using dot operator like any other attribute __dict__ − Dictionary containing the class's namespace. __doc__ − Class documentation string or none, if undefined. __name__ − Class name. __module__ − Module name in which the class is defined. This attribute is "__main__" in interactive mode. __bases__ − A possibly empty tuple containing the base classes, in the order of their occurrence in the base class list.
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