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OOP in Python

It’s all objects…


• Everything in Python is really an object.
• “hello”.upper()
list3.append(‘a’)
dict2.keys()
• New object classes can easily be defined in addition to these built-in
data-types.
• In fact, programming in Python is typically done in an object-oriented
style.

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Classes vs Instances

Classes are used to create user-defined data structures.

Classes define functions called methods, which identify the


behaviors and actions that an object created from the class can
perform with its data.

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Classes vs Instances
• A class is a blueprint
• . It doesn’t actually contain any data.
• The Person class specifies that a name and an age are necessary for
defining a person, but it doesn’t contain the name or age of any
specific person.

• an instance is an object that is built from a class and contains real data.
An instance of the Person class is not a blueprint anymore. It’s an
actual person with a name, like Mike, who’s 22 years old.

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How to Define a Class

• class definitions start with the class keyword,


• followed by the name of the class and a colon.
• Any code that is indented below the class definition is considered part
of the class’s body.

class Student:
pass
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Methods in Classes
• Define a method in a class by including function
definitions within the scope of the class block
• There must be a special first argument self in all
of method definitions which gets bound to the
calling instance
• There is usually a special method called
__init__ in most classes
• We’ll talk about both later…
A simple class def: student
class student:
“““A class representing a
student ”””
def __init__(self,n,a):
self.full_name = n
self.age = a
def get_age(self):
return self.age
Attributes
Attributes
• The non-method data stored by objects are called
attributes
• Data attributes
• Variable owned by a particular instance of a class
• Each instance has its own value for it
• These are the most common kind of attribute
Data Attributes
• Data attributes are created and initialized by an __init__()
method.
• Simply assigning to a name creates the attribute
• Inside the class, refer to data attributes using self
• for example, self.full_name
class teacher:
“A class representing teachers.”
def __init__(self,n):
self.full_name = n
def print_name(self):
print self.full_name
Creating and Deleting Instances
Instantiating Objects
• There is no “new” keyword as in Java.
• Just use the class name with ( ) notation and assign the result to a variable
• __init__ serves as a constructor for the class. Usually does some
initialization work
• The arguments passed to the class name are given to its __init__()
method
• So, the __init__ method for student is passed “Bob” and 21 and the new
class instance is bound to b:
b = student(“Bob”, 21)
Constructor: __init__
• An __init__ method can take any number of arguments.
• Like other functions or methods, the arguments can be defined with
default values, making them optional to the caller.

• However, the first argument self in the definition of __init__ is


special…
Self
• The first argument of every method is a reference
to the current instance of the class
• By convention, we name this argument self
• In __init__, self refers to the object currently
being created
•
Self
• must specify self explicitly when defining the method,

def set_age(self, num):


self.age = num
Access to Attributes and
Methods
Definition of student
class student:
“““A class representing a student
”””
def __init__(self,n,a):
self.fullName = n
self.age = a
def getAge(self):
return self.age
Accessing Attributes and Methods
f = student(“Tim”, 23)

f.fullName # Access attribute


“Tim”

f.getAge() # Access a method


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References

• https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html
• https://realpython.com/python3-object-oriented-programming/

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