Everything in Python is an object, or so the saying goes. If you want to create your own custom objects, with their own properties and methods, you use Python’s class object to make that happen ...

This post explains how to use classes in Python. Including: how to use static and private methods, constructors, and more!

Python’s implementation of object orientation does have a few quirks. For example, if you create a class variable, it can be read from a subclass without specifying scope like you’d expect.

Python classes can make your code more complicated than necessary. So when should you use classes, and when should you use standard functions instead?

In Python, everything is an object, including classes. Therefore, just as you can create an instance of a class, you can also create a class using another class.