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Attributes in Python — 6 Concepts to Know
Better understand Python as a unique OOP language.
In the modern programming world, object-oriented programming (OOP) languages have played an evolutionary role in changing the design and implementation patterns in software development. As a critical member of the OOP family, Python has gradually gained popularity in the last 10 years or so. Like other OOP languages, Python operates its data around a vast diversity of objects, including modules, classes, and functions.
If you have any coding experience in any OOP language, you should probably know that all objects have their internal characteristics data called fields, attributes, or properties. In Python, these object-bound characteristics data are commonly known as attributes. In this article, I would like to talk about them, specifically in the context of a custom class.
1. Class Attributes
To better manage data in our projects, we often need to create custom classes. In Python, classes are objects too, which means that they can have their own attributes. Let’s see an example.
