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.

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.

Mixture of pseudo code and real code, just to get the basic design across:c++:class MyClass // exported to Python using Boost::Python. { }; class Container ...