Bunching data and methods together As a rule of thumb ... If a heap suits your purposes better, you don’t need to define a class. Python’s inbuilt heapq, or heap queue algorithm, does the ...

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. But creating classes in Python sometimes means writing ...

(Except that we call functions “methods” when they appear inside classes in Python!) You’d then simply use your graphics routines to draw those bad guys to the screen, based on the ...