From the course: Learning ArcGIS Python Scripting (2018)
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Objects, properties, and methods - ArcGIS Tutorial
From the course: Learning ArcGIS Python Scripting (2018)
Objects, properties, and methods
- [Instructor] In object oriented programming you access objects, such as map documents, which have properties like the author, and methods, such a save a copy. Python has some built-in object classes like numbers and strings, and built-in functions and methods, like round, which is a method for a numeric object, and upper, which is a method for a string object. When I teach this to new Arc Mac users I always call these Python functions, but here I can use the proper terminology. These are methods that work on numeric and string objects. Just to clarify here, a method is a bit of code that works on an object and does something to the object. A function, is also a bit of code that does a particular task. The difference is that a function has to be passed some data to work on, with a method is associated while a particular object. Additional classes and methods are included in site packages, also called modules. Math, string and arcpy are all modules that can be added to Python scripts.…
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