Classes

- [Presenter] Just like other languages,…such as JavaScript, Python gives you the option…of writing code that is procedural or objected oriented.…So, that you can use classes in Python.…Classes are a really great way of encapsulating…functionality that can be kept together…and passed around as a complete module…for use in other projects…and that's what we're going to take a look at now.…So, let's open up classes underscore start,…here in chapter two.…You can see I've got the beginning of…a main function, here but,…I'm not going to add code to the main function, just yet.…

I'm going to start by defining a class.…So, let me just add some code, here…and I'll define some methods and…I'll explain all of this in a moment…and this one will take an argument.…Classes are defined using the class keyword…and they're given a name…and if this class was based on a superclass…that I was inheriting from,…I would put the name of that other class, here…inside these parentheses.…

But this is just a simple base class…that doesn't depend on anything else,…