Any time you want to create lots of examples of the same “thing,” or any time you want to handle complex code in a modular and easily-exported fashion, classes are a great choice.

Overview Python's "abstract base class" system gives you a way to create types that serve as the abstract foundation for another, more concrete type. This example shows how an abstract base class ...

Python 3.7's dataclasses reduce repetition in your class definitions. Newcomers to Python often are surprised by how little code is required to accomplish quite a bit. Between powerful built-in data ...

Python 3.7 adds new classes for data handling, optimizations for script compilation and garbage collection, and faster asynchronous I/O Python 3.7, the latest version of the language aimed at ...

You're taking a new programming class this fall, and you don't know anything about code. Python is taught widely in schools, and it's one of the most loved programming languages because it's simple.