Class hierarchies are handy for reusing code, customizing behavior ... when you instantiate the sensor. Python’s implementation of object orientation does have a few quirks.

One of these areas is Python classes. Borrowed from Object-Oriented Programming, they’re quite beautiful constructs that you can expand and modify as you code. The big problem is that classes ...

you use Python’s class object to make that happen. But creating classes in Python sometimes means writing loads of repetitive, boilerplate code to set up the class instance from the parameters ...