Welcome to oop-python-learning’s documentation!

Table of Contents

• Object Oriented Programming (OOP) Fundamentals
  • 1. Procedural Programming
  • 2. Object-Oriented Programming
    • 2.1. Classes
    • 2.2. Objects
    • 2.3. Attributes and Methods
  • 3. Class Anatomy: Attributes and Methods
    • 3.1. Basic class
    • 3.2. Adding Methods to a Class
    • 3.3. What is self?
    • 3.4. Add Attributes to Class
    • 3.5. The __init__ constructor
    • 3.6. Best practices
• Inheritance and Polymorphism
  • 1. Instance-level data
  • 2. Class-level data
  • 3. Class Methods
    • 3.1. Example - Class Method 1
    • 3.2. Example - Class Method 2
  • 4. Inheritance
    • 4.1. Example - Inheritance 1
    • 4.2. Example - Inheritance 2
    • 4.3. The super().__init__
  • 5. Encapsulation
    • 5.1. Example - Encapsulation 1
  • 6. Polymorphism
• Integrating with standard Python
  • 1. Operator Overloading: comparison
    • 1.1. The __eq__() method
    • 1.2. Other Comparison Operators
  • 2. Operator Overloading: string representation
    • 2.1. The __str__() method
    • 2.2. The __repr__() method
    • 2.3. Example - String Representation 1
    • 2.4. Example - String Representation 2
  • 3. Exceptions
    • 3.1. Raising an Exception
    • 3.2. Custom Exceptions
• Best Practices of class design
  • 1. Managing data access: private attributes
    • 1.1. Naming Convention: internal attributes
    • 1.2. Naming Convention: pseudoprivate attributes
    • 1.3. Use @property to customize access