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.

However, this amazement often ends when people start to define classes in Python. True, the class definitions generally will be pretty short. But the __init__ method, which adds attributes to a new ...

In Python, a number of different modules and objects provide such functionality, including os.path, os.stat and glob. This isn't necessarily bad; the fact is that Python developers have used this ...