Learning Python - OOP: The Big Picture

This paper begins the exploration of the Python class - a device used to implement new kinds of objects in Python. Classes are Python's main Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) tool, so the paper also looks at OOP basics along the way. In Python, classes are created with a new statement: the class. As one see, the objects defined with classes can look a lot like the built-in types seen earlier in the paper. They will also support inheritance - a mechanism of code customization and reuse, above and beyond anything one has seen so far.