Summary

In this chapter, you have begun our journey into a cornerstone of object-oriented programming: classes. You have learned how classes allow you to write more elegant, reusable, and DRY code. You learned about the importance of and distinction between class and instance attributes, and how to set them in the class definition. You also explored various types of methods and when to use them. You explored the concept of a property and the Pythonic implementation of getters and setters. Lastly, you learned how to share methods and attributes between classes via single and multiple inheritance.

In the next chapter, you will explore the Python standard library and the various tools you can avail yourself of before needing to turn to third-party modules.