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 ...

Python or JavaScript? While we’re still arguing over which has the upper hand or the brighter future, little doubt exists as to which owns the web’s front end. Until WebAssembly advances to ...

Callable Types When I tell participants in my Python classes that everything in Python is an object, they nod their heads, clearly thinking, "I've heard this before about other languages." But then I ...